Resident in Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital
Michal (she/her or they/them) is a resident in the Physician Scientist Training Program in Psychiatry at the combined Massachusetts General Hospital / McLean Hospital Adult Psychiatry Residency Program. She grew up in Dallas, TX and Indianapolis, IN and graduated from Stanford in 2011 with a major in Human Biology and a minor in Iberian and Latin American Cultures. After college, she moved to 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 then pursued an MD/MPH at Harvard Medical School/T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Michal’s research interests include mental health, LGBTQ health disparities, health services, and policy.
Representative Publications
- Agénor M, Peitzmeier SM, Bernstein IM, McDowell MJ, Alizaga NM, Reisner SL, Pardee DJ, Potter J. Perceptions of cervical cancer risk and screening among transmasculine individuals: patient and provider perspectives. Cult Health Sex. 2016 Oct;18(10):1192-206. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2016.1177203. Epub 2016 May 4. PubMed PMID: 27142466.
- McDowell MJ, Pardee DJ, Peitzmeier S, Reisner SL, Agénor M, Alizaga N, Bernstein I, Potter J. Cervical Cancer Screening Preferences Among Trans-Masculine Individuals: Patient-Collected Human Papillomavirus Vaginal Swabs Versus Provider-Administered Pap Tests. LGBT Health. 2017 Aug;4(4):252-259. doi: 10.1089/lgbt.2016.0187. Epub 2017 Jun 30. PubMed PMID: 28665783.
- Peitzmeier SM, Agénor M, Bernstein IM, McDowell MJ, Alizaga NM, Reisner SL, Pardee DJ, Potter J. “It Can Promote an Existential Crisis”: Factors Influencing Pap Test Acceptability and Utilization Among Transmasculine Individuals. Qual Health Res. 2017 Dec;27(14):2138-2149. doi: 10.1177/1049732317725513. Epub 2017 Aug 24. PubMed PMID: 28836483.
- Keuroghlian AS, McDowell MJ, Stern TA. Providing Care for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Immigrants at Health Centers and Clinics. Psychosomatics. 2018 Mar – Apr;59(2):193-198. doi: 10.1016/j.psym.2017.10.008. Epub 2017 Oct 23. PubMed PMID: 29198425.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
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mjmcdowell@mgh.harvard.edu