Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri
Ginger E. Nicol, MD, CEDS, is associate professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Nicol graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communications with an emphasis in public health communication from the University of Iowa. She received her medical degree from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. She fulfilled both her residency in general psychiatry and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Washington University, where she also completed a National Institute of Drug and Alcohol Abuse (NIDAA) post-doctoral research fellowship in obesity and metabolic disorders in psychiatric populations. She is a certified eating disorder specialist (CEDS) and serves as the director of eating disorder education and training for the psychiatry residency and child psychiatry fellowship training programs at Washington University. Dr. Nicol’s research focuses on decreasing cardiometabolic risk and related mortality in populations living with mental illness. These efforts have included leading studies characterizing the obesogenic effects of psychotropic medications using gold-standard metabolic assessment tools, evaluating claims data regarding psychotropic medication monitoring and prescribing practices in Medicaid populations and adapting existing family-based and mobile app-based healthy lifestyle interventions for use in populations living with mental illness. Dr. Nicol has served on the Missouri HealthNet (Medicaid) Pharmacy Program’s Drug Utilization Review Board since 2009, and regularly consults with MO Medicaid and Children’s Division on policy regarding the prescribing of obesogenic psychotropic medications in children and adults. She is also the president of the Missouri Regional Organization for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
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