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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Shrinking the know–do gap in psychedelic-assisted therapy
Nicol, G. E., Adams, D. R., Lenze, E. J. & Cabassa, L., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Nature Human Behaviour. 109610.
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Satisfaction, user experiences, and initial efficacy of a technology-supported self-management intervention (iSMART) to improve post-stroke functioning: a remoted randomized controlled trial
Lei, Y., Li, Z., Bui, Q., DePaul, O., Nicol, G. E., Mohr, D. C., Fong, M. W. M., Metts, C. L., Lee, S. I., Tomazin, S. E. & Wong, A. W. K., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Topics in stroke rehabilitation.
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Hiding in plain sight: eating disorders in diverse populations – a case for comprehensive medical education
Brown, T. R., Jansen, M. O., Hirsch, D., Amir, H., Duncan, A. E. & Nicol, G. E., Dec 2024, In: Journal of Eating Disorders. 12, 1, 216.
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Moving psychedelic-assisted therapies from promising research into routine clinical practice: Lessons from the field of implementation science
Adams, D. R., Allen, H., Nicol, G. E. & Cabassa, L. J., Dec 1 2024, In: Translational Behavioral Medicine. 14, 12, p. 744-752 9 p.
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PET clinical study of novel antipsychotic LB-102 demonstrates unexpectedly prolonged dopamine receptor target engagement
Wong, D. F., Chand, G. B., Caito, N., Eramo, A., Grattan, V. T., Hixon, M. S., Nicol, G., Lessie, E., Prensky, Z., Kuwabara, H., Tian, L., Valenta, I., Schindler, T. H., Gründer, G. & Vaino, A. R., Dec 2024, In: Neuropsychopharmacology. 50, 2, p. 372-377 6 p.