Micheal McGee

I started Doc Lobe so that mental health students, professionals and educational leaders could see how the brain works instead of memorizing it. Every lesson connects brain chemistry, brain imaging and mental health, and the history and culture that shape how people are diagnosed and treated.

My research looks at the underrepresentation of Black people in education and the gap between equal and equitable instruction. That is why Doc Lobe puts the scholars and histories textbooks leave out at the center, confronts the race myths that still shape medicine, and keeps every lesson free to use, including on a flash drive for classrooms without internet.

Equality gives every student the same thing. Equity gives every student what they need to reach the same high bar.

I am an adjunct professor at Bowie State University, where since 2023 I have taught undergraduate courses in abnormal psychology, cognitive processes and work motivation, supervised undergraduate research and advised students. I build interactive lessons, games and teacher materials for college courses, and I lead workshops for faculty, students, counseling and student-life staff, and families, virtually or on campus.

I also teach psychology in Bowie State University's grant-funded prison education program, which helps incarcerated men earn a bachelor's degree in Social Justice, with the same learning outcomes as my on-campus courses. That work is why every part of Doc Lobe runs offline from a flash drive and why prison education programs receive the deepest licensing discount.

Training topics include bringing brain science into a course, the brain and stress, mental health data with SAS, and substance use and the developing brain.