Michael Gandal, MD
Psychiatry
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Psychiatry Market Street 2nd Floor
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- William & Noreen Hetznecker Associate Professor in Psychiatry
- Associate Professor of Genetics
- Associate Professor of Pediatrics
My education and training
- Medical School: University of Pennsylvania
- Residency: University of California, Los Angeles
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Centivo EPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Highmark Blue Shield BlueCare Custom PPO
- Highmark Blue Shield Complete Blue PPO Choice Deluxe
- Highmark Blue Shield Complete Blue PPO Premier
- Highmark Blue Shield First Priority Life (FPLIC) - AffordaBlue PPO
- Highmark Blue Shield Freedom Blue PPO
- Highmark Blue Shield My Blue Access PPO
- Highmark Blue Shield My Direct Blue EPO
- Highmark Blue Shield PPO
- Highmark Wholecare (formerly Gateway Health) Assured Ruby HMO SNP
- Highmark Wholecare (formerly Gateway Health) Payor Access Agreement
- Highmark Wholecare (formerly) Gateway Health) Assured Diamond HMO SNP
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Psychiatry, 2017
- American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP), International
- American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG), International
- Autism Science Foundation (ASF), National
- Autism Speaks, National
- Cory Heidaran Charitable Foundation (CHCF), National
- International Society for Psychiatric Genetics (ISPG), International
- Investigator, PsychENCODE Consortium, International
- Investigator, Simons Foundation for Autism Research (SFARI), International
- NIH BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN), National
- NIH Molecular Neurogenetics Study Section (MNG), National
- NIH Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Neuroscience (MDCN) Study Section, National
- NIH/NICHD Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Center Review Panel, National
- NIMH Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC), National
- Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, International
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Grotzinger AD, Werme J, Peyrot WJ, Frei O, de Leeuw C, Bicks LK, Guo Q, Margolis MP, Coombes BJ, Batzler A, Pazdernik V, Biernacka JM, Andreassen OA, Anttila V, Børglum AD, Breen G, Cai N, Demontis D, Edenberg HJ, Faraone SV, Franke B, Gandal MJ, Gelernter J, Hatoum AS, Hettema JM, Johnson EC, Jonas KG, Knowles JA, Koenen KC, Maihofer AX, Mallard TT, Mattheisen M, Mitchell KS, Neale BM, Nievergelt CM, Nurnberger JI, O'Connell KS, Peterson RE, Robinson EB, Sanchez-Roige SS, Santangelo SL, Scharf JM, Stefansson H, Stefansson K, Stein MB, Strom NI, Thornton LM, Tucker-Drob EM, Verhulst B, Waldman ID, Walters GB, Wray NR, Yu D; Anxiety Disorders Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; Autism Spectrum Disorders Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; Bipolar Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; Eating Disorders Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; Nicotine Dependence GenOmics (iNDiGO) Consortium; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Tourette Syndrome Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; Substance Use Disorders Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; Lee PH, Kendler KS, Smoller JW. Mapping the genetic landscape across 14 psychiatric disorders , Nature, 649: 2026,406-415
Jajoo A, Balakundi V, Chatzinakos C, Aruldass A, Wen C, Kolmans IGC, Iatrou A, Kleinman JE, Ressler KJ, Bigdeli T, Gandal MJ, Daskalakis NP. Leveraging genomic and transcriptomic data of diverse ancestry to uncover mechanisms of psychiatric risk in the adult and developing brain , Nat Commun, 17: 2025,1179
Michael P Margolis, Miao Tang, Miriam Gagliardi, Cindy Wen, Yeda Wu, Naomi R Wray, Michael J Ziller, Michael J Gandal* From variants to mechanisms: Neurogenomics in the post-GWAS era , Neuron, 113: 2025,3509-3529
Robinson, E, Borglum, A, Gandal, M AUTISM GENETICS: TRANSLATING ASSOCIATION TO BIO-LOGICAL UNDERSTANDING , European Neuropsychopharmacology, 99(1): 2025
Colbert SMC, Monson ET, Andreassen OA, Ayinde OO, Barr PB, Bejan CA, Ceja Z, Coon H, DiBlasi E, Edenberg HJ, Gelernter J, Hatoum A, Izotova A, Johnson EC, Kaufman EA, Kranzler HR, Koromina M, Lehto K, Myung W, Nurnberger JI Jr, Serretti A, Smoller JW, Stein MB, Zai CC, Erlangsen A, Gaine M, Martorell L, Sud R, Toma C, Bigdeli TB, Kimbrel NA, Ruderfer D, Docherty AR, Mann JJ, Mullins N; Psychiatric Genomics Consortium Suicide Working Group. Defining suicidality phenotypes for genetic studies: perspectives of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium Suicide Working Group , Mol Psychiatry: 2025
Sha, ZQ, Warrier, V, Bethlehem, RAI, Schultz, LM, Merikangas, A, Sun, KY, Gur, RC, Gur, RE, Shinohara, RT, Gandal, MJ, Seidlitz, J, Almasy, L, Andreassen, OA, Alexander-Bloch, AF The overlapping genetic architecture of psychiatric disorders and cortical brain structure , Nature Mental Health, 3(9): 2025
Tsai YC, Ozaki H, Wang X, Almet AA, Fleming I, Shiraiwa K, Noh MJM, Nie C, Trejo S, Sugita BK, Dalal J, Gonzalez RA, De Jesus B, Chen GL, Gandal MJ, Nie Q, Watanabe M. Morphogen-guided neocortical organoids recapitulate regional areal identity and model neurodevelopmental disorder pathology , bioRxiv: 2025
Sha Z, Sun KY, Jung B, Barzilay R, Moore TM, Almasy L, Forsyth JK, Prem S, Gandal MJ, Seidlitz J, Glessner JT, Alexander-Bloch AF. Copy Number Variant Architecture of Child Psychopathology and Cognitive Development in the ABCD Study , Am J Psychiatry, 182: 2025,763-778
Vuong CK, Weber A, Seong P, Matoba N, Shafie B, Salinda A, Zhang P, Chen YJ, Nichterwitz S, Younesi S, Qi L, Gandal MJ, Geschwind DH, Stein JL, de la Torre-Ubieta L. A single cell multi-omic analysis identifies molecular and gene-regulatory mechanisms dysregulated in the developing Down syndrome neocortex , bioRxiv: 2025
Hernandez LM, Amirtha Ganesh SS, Gandal MJ, Fuligni AJ. Genetic prediction of early adolescent chronotype: effects of sex and pubertal status , Sleep, 48: 2025,zsaf094