Katherine Dickerson Mayes, MD, PhD

Katherine Mayes, MD, PhD, is an emergency medicine physician and researcher at Virginia Tech Carilion, where she contributes to clinical care and translational neurotrauma research. Her work focuses on precision diagnostics for traumatic brain injury, integrating both biomarker science with biomechanical engineering approaches.

Dr. Mayes earned her PhD in neuroscience from the University of St Andrews in Scotland as a Bobby Jones Scholar and her medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine. She completed her emergency medicine residency at the Harvard-affiliated Mass General Brigham program, where she served as chief resident.

Her research is conducted in collaboration with the Virginia Tech Helmet Lab and the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, with the goal of advancing diagnostic tools and improving outcomes in traumatic brain injury.