Megan Mikhail, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Postdoctoral Fellowship University of California, San Francisco 06/2026
• PhD Clinical psychology Michigan State University 06/2025
• Clinical internship University of California, San Francisco 06/2025
• MA Clinical psychology Michigan State University 05/2020
• BS Biology; minor in creative writing Stanford University 06/2014

Interests

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• gene-environment interplay
• treatment access
• socioeconomic disadvantage
• emotions and emotion regulation
• eating disorders
• developmental psychopathology

Publications (41)

Top publication keywords:
ProgesteroneGonadal HormonesFeeding and Eating DisordersBulimiaAmbulatory CareEmotionsFeeding BehaviorExposure to ViolencePsychotherapyGene-Environment InteractionBinge-Eating DisorderEstradiolInpatientsGastrointestinal DiseasesResidence Characteristics

• Discrimination and Disordered Eating in Economically Disadvantaged Adults: A Multilevel, Longitudinal Study.
  Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science 2026 Mikhail ME, Klump KL, Burnette CB, Horton TH, Gardiner J, Pearson AL
• Combined Oral Contraceptive Use and Binge Eating.
  JAMA network open 2026 Klump KL, Di Dio AM, Anaya C, Mikhail ME, Burt SA, Sisk CL, Keel PK, Katzman DK, Neale M, Ackerman LS, Clark SL, Culbert KM
• The Impact of Emotion Coaching on Changes in Caregiver Burden and Distress Tolerance During Family-Based Treatment.
  The International journal of eating disorders 2026 Kramer R, Stevens K, Mikhail ME, Le Grange D, Shaffer A, Aarnio-Peterson CM
• Within-Person Changes in Daily Ovarian Hormone Levels Influence Genetic Effects on Emotional Eating in Women.
  The International journal of eating disorders 2025 Mikhail ME, Culbert KM, Keel PK, Burt SA, Sisk CL, Johnson A, Boker S, Neale MC, Klump KL
• Outpatient Therapy and Risk of Rehospitalization for Youth With Eating Disorders.
  Pediatrics 2025 Mikhail ME, Duggento Cordell K, Downey AE, Snowden LR, Accurso EC

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• Centering Impact and Equity in the Next 50 Years of Eating Disorder Research.
  The International journal of eating disorders 2025 Mikhail ME, Burnette CB
• A transdiagnostic examination of sex- and race and ethnicity-based mental health treatment disparities among publicly insured youth.
  Psychological medicine 2025 Accurso EC, Mikhail ME, Cordell KD, Downey AE, Snowden LR
• Identifying Active Ingredients of the Association Between Neighborhood Disadvantage and Disordered Eating in Youth.
  The International journal of eating disorders 2025 Mikhail ME, Klump KL, Pearson AL, Burt SA
• Preliminary Evidence That Shared Genetic Influences Underlie Comorbidity Between Self-Reported Eating and Internalizing Disorders and Gastrointestinal Disease in Adult Women and Men.
  The International journal of eating disorders 2024 Mikhail ME, Pascoe LA, Burt SA, Culbert KM, Klump KL
• Daily estradiol and progesterone levels moderate genetic and environmental influences on emotional eating across 45 consecutive days in female twins.
  Psychological medicine 2024 Klump KL, Mikhail ME, Anaya C, Keel PK, Culbert KM, Sisk CL, Johnson A, Boker S, Neale MC, Burt SA
• Predictors of Outpatient and Inpatient Service Utilization Among Publicly-Insured Youth With Eating Disorders.
  The International journal of eating disorders 2024 Mikhail ME, Cordell KD, Downey AE, Snowden LR, Accurso EC
• Self-reported food liking and wanting: A factor analytic study of ratings across 49 consecutive days.
  Appetite 2024 Hildebrandt BA, Mikhail ME, Gearhardt AN, Culbert KM, Burt SA, Neale MC, Keel PK, Katzman DK, Klump KL
• Comorbidity between internalizing symptoms and disordered eating is primarily driven by genetic influences on emotion regulation in adult female twins.
  Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science 2024 Mikhail ME, Burt SA, Neale MC, Keel PK, Katzman DK, Klump KL
• Changes in affect longitudinally mediate associations between emotion regulation strategy use and disordered eating.
  The International journal of eating disorders 2024 Mikhail ME, Burt SA, Neale MC, Keel PK, Katzman DK, Klump KL
• Food and Addiction: A Comprehensive Handbook. Edited by: Ashley N. Gearhardt, Kelly D. Brownell, Mark S. Gold, & Marc N. Potenza
  Pubertal Development and the Development of Dysregulated Eating 2024 Mikhail ME, Anaya C, Culbert KM, Sisk CL, Johnson A, Klump KL
• Shared genetic influences between eating disorders and gastrointestinal disease in a large, population-based sample of adult women and men.
  Psychological medicine 2023 Pascoe LA, Mikhail ME, Burt SA, Culbert KM, Klump KL
• Estrogen moderation of genetic influences on eating disorder symptoms during gonadarche in girls: Specific effects on binge eating.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2023 Rolan EP, Mikhail ME, Culbert KM, Burt SA, Klump KL
• Associations between household income and disordered eating differ across sex and racial identity in a population-based sample of adults.
  The International journal of eating disorders 2023 Mikhail ME, Ackerman LS, Anaya C, Culbert KM, Burt SA, Klump KL
• Identifying the 'active ingredients' of socioeconomic disadvantage for youth outcomes in middle childhood.
  Development and psychopathology 2023 Carroll SL, Shewark EA, Mikhail ME, Thaler DJ, Pearson AL, Klump KL, Burt SA
• The development of youth antisocial behavior across time and context: A systematic review and integration of person-centered and variable-centered research.
  Clinical psychology review 2023 Carroll SL, Mikhail ME, Burt SA
• Disadvantage and disordered eating in boys: Examining phenotypic and genotype × environment associations across development.
  Journal of psychopathology and clinical science 2023 Mikhail ME, Carroll SL, Clark DA, O'Connor SM, Culbert KM, Burt SA, Klump KL
• A cotwin control study of associations between financial hardship and binge eating phenotypes during COVID-19.
  The International journal of eating disorders 2022 Mikhail ME, Ackerman LS, Culbert KM, Burt SA, Neale MC, Keel PK, Katzman DK, Klump KL
• Exploring the possibility of parents' broad internalizing phenotype acting through passive gene-environment correlations on daughters' disordered eating.
  Development and psychopathology 2022 O'Connor SM, Mikhail M, Anaya C, Haller LL, Burt SA, McGue M, Iacono WG, Klump KL
• Between- and within-person effects of stress on emotional eating in women: a longitudinal study over 49 days.
  Psychological medicine 2022 Fowler N, Mikhail ME, Neale M, Keel PK, Katzman DK, Sisk CL, Burt SA, Klump KL
• The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on disordered eating symptoms in women: A 49-day, daily study before and during the outbreak in the United States.
  Journal of psychopathology and clinical science 2022 Klump KL, Mikhail ME, Anaya C, Fowler N, Neale M, Keel PK, Gearhardt AN, Katzman DK, Sisk CL, Burt SA
• A daily diary study of emotion regulation as a moderator of negative affect-binge eating associations.
  The International journal of eating disorders 2022 Mikhail ME, Fowler N, Burt SA, Neale MC, Keel PK, Katzman DK, Klump KL
• Unheard voices: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on disordered eating in people with marginalized identities: Commentary on Devoe et al. (2022), Linardon et al. (2022) and Schneider et al. (2022).
  The International journal of eating disorders 2022 Mikhail ME
• Context matters: Neighborhood disadvantage is associated with increased disordered eating and earlier activation of genetic influences in girls.
  Journal of abnormal psychology 2021 Mikhail ME, Carroll SL, Clark DA, O'Connor S, Burt SA, Klump KL
• Gonadal Hormone Influences on Sex Differences in Binge Eating Across Development.
  Current psychiatry reports 2021 Mikhail ME, Anaya C, Culbert KM, Sisk CL, Johnson A, Klump KL
• Affect Dysregulation in Context: Implications and Future Directions of Experience Sampling Research on Affect Regulation Models of Loss of Control Eating.
  Frontiers in psychiatry 2021 Mikhail ME
• What gets in the way of social engagement in schizophrenia?
  World journal of psychiatry 2021 Weittenhiller LP, Mikhail ME, Mote J, Campellone TR, Kring AM
• A virtual issue highlighting eating disorders in people of black/African and Indigenous heritage.
  The International journal of eating disorders 2020 Mikhail ME, Klump KL
• Trait negative affect interacts with ovarian hormones to predict risk for emotional eating.
  Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science 2020 Mikhail ME, Keel PK, Burt SA, Sisk CL, Neale M, Boker S, Klump KL
• Increased rates of eating disorders and their symptoms in women with major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders.
  The International journal of eating disorders 2020 Garcia SC, Mikhail ME, Keel PK, Burt SA, Neale MC, Boker S, Klump KL
• The Disruptive Effects of Estrogen Removal before Puberty on Risk for Binge Eating in Female Rats.
  Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science 2020 Klump KL, Sinclair EB, Hildebrandt BA, Kashy DA, O'Connor S, Mikhail ME, Culbert KM, Johnson A, Sisk CL
• Ovarian Hormones and Reward Processes in Palatable Food Intake and Binge Eating.
  Physiology (Bethesda, Md.) 2020 Ma R, Mikhail ME, Culbert KM, Johnson AW, Sisk CL, Klump KL
• Low emotion differentiation: An affective correlate of binge eating?
  The International journal of eating disorders 2019 Mikhail ME, Keel PK, Burt SA, Neale M, Boker S, Klump KL
• Gonadal hormone contributions to individual differences in eating disorder risk.
  Current opinion in psychiatry 2019 Mikhail ME, Culbert KM, Sisk CL, Klump KL
• Emotion regulation strategy use and eating disorder symptoms in daily life.
  Eating behaviors 2019 Mikhail ME, Kring AM
• The Role of Puberty and Ovarian Hormones in the Genetic Diathesis of Eating Disorders in Females.
  Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America 2019 Ma R, Mikhail ME, Fowler N, Culbert KM, Klump KL
• A mammalian pseudogene lncRNA at the interface of inflammation and anti-inflammatory therapeutics.
  eLife 2013 Rapicavoli NA, Qu K, Zhang J, Mikhail M, Laberge RM, Chang HY