Ted is the McLure Associate Professor in Psychiatry & Behavioral Research at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Ted completed medical and graduate training at Washington University in St. Louis, where he was a student of Randy L. Buckner. Subsequently, he was a psychiatry resident and a neuropsychiatry fellow at Penn, under the mentorship of Raquel E. Gur. He joined the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry in 2014, and served as the Director of Imaging Analytics of the Brain Behavior Laboratory from 2015-2019. Since 2020, he has directed PennLINC. His research uses multi-modal neuroimaging to describe both normal and abnormal patterns of brain development, in order to better understand the origins of neuropsychiatric illness. He has been the PI of nine R01s from NIH. His work has been recognized with the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation's Klerman Prize for Clinical Research, the NIMH Biobehavioral Research Award for Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS) award, the NIH Merit Award, as well as several teaching awards.