Additional Titles & Roles
- Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Research Education Program (CAP-PRREP)
- Director, Digital and Health Integrative Research, Employee and Family Mental Health & Wellness Center
- Director, Mobile Health Research Core (MHRC)
- Co-Director, Healthy Mind Lab
Education & Training
- Postdoctoral Training: Biomedical Research Training in Drug Abuse, 2010
- Fellowship: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2007
- Residency: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2005
- M.D.: University of Iowa, 2002
- B.A.: University of Iowa, 1998
Major Awards
- Child Fellowship Mentoring Award, Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, 2019
- Resident Mentoring Award, Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, 2018
- Mortimer Goodman Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mental Health through MO NAMI, 2014
- Eli Robins Award for Excellence in Clinical Psychiatry, Teaching and Research, 2007
Areas of Clinical Interest
Obesity and metabolic health in children, adults and older adults with severe mental illness; eating disorders; medical weight management.
Research Interests
Identification and prevention of cardiometabolic risk in mentally ill populations, psychopharmacology, medical and behavioral treatment of obesity and eating disorders in children, adults and older adults.
Recent Publications
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The science of psychedelic medicine
Siegel, J. S., Liston, C., Nicol, G. E., Carhart-Harris, R. L. & Bogenschutz, M. P., Feb 2026, In: Nature medicine. 32, 2, p. 449-462 14 p.
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Pharmacotherapy of major depressive disorder in older adults: from an evidence-informed stepwise algorithm to precision medicine
Lenze, E. J., Karp, J. F., Gebara, M. A., Nicol, G. E. & Mulsant, B. H., 2026, (Accepted/In press) In: Neuropsychopharmacology.
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Optimizing the Work of Learning for Flourishing: A Randomized Pilot Study of a Digital CBT-Based Intervention in Medical Students
Sanchez, J. S., Perry, D., Kinghorn, A., Vermette, D., Gray, T., Duncan, J. G., Evanoff, B. & Nicol, G. E., 2026, (Accepted/In press) In: Academic Psychiatry.
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Risk Factors for Falls in Older Depressed Adults Treated with Bupropion: An Analysis of the OPTIMUM Randomized Clinical Trial
Bender, D. A., Mulsant, B. H., Lavretsky, H., Brown, P. J., Karp, J., Reynolds, C. F., Lenard, E., Yingling, M. D., Miller, J. P., Nicol, G., Kharasch, E. D. & Lenze, E. J., 2026, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of general internal medicine.
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Correction to: Psilocybin’s acute and persistent brain effects: a precision imaging drug trial (Scientific Data, (2025), 12, 1, (941), 10.1038/s41597-025-05189-0)
Subramanian, S., Reneau, T. R., Perry, D., Chacko, R., Laumann, T. O., Flavin, K., Horan, C., Schweiger, J., Metcalf, N., Lenze, E. J., Snyder, A. Z., Dosenbach, N. U. F., Nicol, G. & Siegel, J. S., Dec 2025, In: Scientific data. 12, 1, 1029.