Michal McDowell, MD, MPH

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow, Boston Children’s Hospital

Michal (she/they) is a Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital. She completed residency in the Physician Scientist Training Program in Psychiatry at the combined Massachusetts General Hospital / McLean Hospital Adult Psychiatry Residency Program in 2018 and continues to work at MGH and McLean. She also has a small private practice. She grew up in Dallas, TX and Indianapolis, IN and graduated from Stanford University in 2011 with a major in Human Biology and a minor in Iberian and Latin American Cultures. Prior to pursuing medical training, she worked in Washington, D.C. where she spent time tracking Affordable Care Act implementation on a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and subsequently worked at the public policy office of the Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR). She holds an MD/MPH from Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Michal’s research interests include mental health, LGBTQ health disparities, health services, and policy.

Representative Publications

1. McDowell MJ, Busch AB, Sen AP, et al. Participation in Accountable Care Organizations Among Hospitals Offering Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health Services. Psychiatr Serv. August 2018:appips201800248. doi:10.1176/appi.ps.201800248
2. Grasso C,* McDowell MJ,* Goldhammer H, Keuroghlian AS. Planning and implementing sexual orientation and gender identity data collection in electronic health records. J Am Med Inform Assoc. November 2018. doi:10.1093/jamia/ocy137
3. Beckwith N, McDowell MJ, Reisner SL, et al. Psychiatric Epidemiology of Transgender and Nonbinary Adult Patients at an Urban Health Center. LGBT Health. February 2019. doi:10.1089/lgbt.2018.0136
4. McDowell MJ, Hughto JMW, Reisner SL. Risk and protective factors for mental health morbidity in a community sample of female-to-male trans-masculine adults. BMC Psychiatry. 2019 Jan 9;19(1):16. doi: 10.1186/s12888-018-2008-0. PubMed PMID: 30626372; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6327526.
5. Peitzmeier S, Bernstein I, McDowell MJ, et al. Enacting power and constructing gender in cervical cancer screening encounters between transmasculine patients and health care providers. Culture, Health & Sexuality. 2019 Oct 29:1-18. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2019.1677942.
6. McDowell MJ, Goldhammer H, Potter JE, Keuroghlian AS. Strategies to Mitigate Clinician Implicit Bias against Sexual and Gender Minority Patients. Psychosomatics. Published online May 23, 2020. doi:10.1016/j.psym.2020.04.021
7. McDowell MJ, Fry CE, Nisavic M, et al. Evaluating the association between COVID-19 and psychiatric presentations, suicidal ideation in an emergency department. PLOS ONE. 2021;16(6):e0253805. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0253805
8. Grossman MN, Fry CE, Sorg E, MacLean R, Nisavic M, McDowell MJ, Masaki C, Bird S, Smith F, & Beach SR (2021). Trends in suicidal ideation in an emergency department during COVID-19. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 150, 110619. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2021.110619
9. Hyland CJ, McDowell MJ, Bain PA, Huskamp HA, Busch AB. Integration of pharmacotherapy for alcohol use disorder treatment in primary care settings: A scoping review. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. Published online October 28, 2022:108919. doi:10.1016/j.jsat.2022.108919
10. McDowell MJ, King DS, Gitin S, Miller AS, Batchelder AW, Greenfield SF, Huskamp HA, Keuroghlian AS. Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment in Sexually and Gender Diverse Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study. J Clin Psychiatry. Published online August 28, 2023.

Contact
mjmcdowell@mgh.harvard.edu