Racky Wade-Kane

I am a doctor and research teacher in anatomy with a clinical option in psychiatry at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar. In 2015, I graduated in psychiatry and I have had a successive career as a hospital intern, hospital practitioner, assistant head of clinic and now master assistant head of clinic. As a result, I have acquired excellent skills in managing the mental health of populations, listening and empathy towards patients. In parallel, I obtained a Master's degree in 2013 and a Doctorate in 2018 on the anatomy of the nervous system studied by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A course that was certainly atypical at the beginning, but which has all the value of the current era of neuroscience. This rigorous and absorbing course was also sanctioned by the appointment, in January 2019, of the first female Assistant Professor of Anatomy in Senegal. This was followed by scientific publications, the most important of which focused on translational research, more precisely on neuroanatomy applied to psychiatry (schizophrenia, depression). The chosen clinical option in psychiatry is then in line with an obvious coherence. Confirmation of this brilliant course by : - Obtaining a prize of excellence for the best oral communication on the cingulate gyrus and depression, awarded by the Anatomical Society of Paris in 2015; - Obtaining an Excellence Scholarship from the French Embassy in Senegal for a four-month doctoral research stay at the University of Paris (ex Paris Descartes) in 2016; - Winner in 2017 of the Support Project for the Promotion of Female Researchers in Senegal (PAPES) of the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation of Senegal. At the time, this project also targeted young female researchers. At this point, a researcher, teacher and doctor has built herself up through her sense of organisation, determination and flexibility. In the future, I would like to direct a translational research unit whose main research axis will be neuroanatomy and neuroimaging applied to psychiatry by exploiting the new 3D technologies and artificial intelligence (AI).