Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Megan Parker received a B.S. in psychology from the Pennsylvania State University and a M.S. in psychology from Drexel University. In 2019, she joined the Medical and Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at the Uniformed Services University to study under Marian Tanofsky-Kraff, Ph.D. During graduate school, she also trained under Jack Yanovski, M.D., Ph.D. at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Her graduate research utilized experimental, cross-sectional, and longitudinal study designs to identify physiological, neural, and psychological correlates of binge eating among youth. Her research has been supported by the Academy for Eating Disorders and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation. She has received awards for her research and mentorship from the National Institutes of Health and The Obesity Society. Megan was thrilled to match with the Child Track (pediatric focus) of the clinical psychology pre-doctoral internship at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. During her pre-doctoral internship, Megan has worked with Elissa Jelalian, Ph.D., and collaborators in the United States military health system to expand her research to a new pediatric population. She received a research grant from the Society for Pediatric Psychology to support her internship research project investigating psychiatric diagnoses and medication prescriptions in adolescents and young adults with polycystic ovary syndrome. Megan is excited to continue this line of research during her postdoctoral training with Brown's Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine T32 Fellowship. Megan greatly appreciates her mentors, collaborators, family, and friends, all of whom have made her doctoral training possible.