Melissa Munn-Chernoff, Ph.D., FAED

Courses Taught

• ADRS 4329: Eating Disorders
• ADRS 6342: Grant Writing

Research

Dr. Munn-Chernoff has four primary programs of research: (1) identifying genetic vulnerability to eating disorders and their symptoms; (2) explicating the comorbidity of eating disorders and substance use disorders from a genetic epidemiology perspective; (3) investigating eating disorder and comorbid psychopathology in underrepresented populations; and (4) exploring mental health in adolescents and young adults. To complete this work, she has received grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

Selected Publications

(*The coauthor is one of my current or former undergraduate student advisees. **The coauthor is one of my current or former graduate student or summer fellow advisees.)

1. **Qi, B., Thornton, L.M., **Breiner, C.E., Kuja-Haklola, R., Baker, J.H., Lichtenstein, P., Lundstrӧm, S., Agrawal, A., Bulik, C.M., Munn-Chernoff, M.A. (2023). Differential genetic associations between dimensions of eating disorders and alcohol involvement in late adolescent twins. Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research, 47, 1677-1689. PMID: 38051153. PMCID: PMC10699207."
2. **Qi, B., **Presseller, E.K., **Cooper, G.E., **Kakapadia, A., *Dumain, A.S., **Jayawickreme, S.M., Bulik-Sullivan, E.C., van Furth, E., Thornton, L.M., Bulik, C.M., Munn-Chernoff, M.A. (2022). Development and validation of an eating-related eco-concern questionnaire. Nutrients, 14, 4517. PMID: 36364778. PMCID: PMC9658603.
3. Munn-Chernoff, M.A., Johnson, E.C., Chou, Y., Coleman, J.R.I., Thornton, L.M., Walters, R.K., et al (2021). Shared genetic risk between eating disorder- and substance-use-related phenotypes: Evidence from genome-wide association studies. Addiction Biology, 26, e12880. PMID: 32064741. PMCID: PMC7429266.
4. *Uri, R.C., Wu, Y.-K., Baker, J.H., Munn-Chernoff, M.A. (2021). Eating disorder symptoms in Asian American college students. Eating Behaviors, 40, 101458. PMID: 33307468. PMCID: PMC7906921.
5. Munn-Chernoff, M.A., Few, L.R., Matherne, C.E., Baker, J.H., Men, V., McCutcheon, V.V., et al (2020). Eating disorders in a community-based sample of women with alcohol use disorder and nicotine dependence. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 212, 107981. PMID: 32442752. PMCID: PMC7293939.
6. Watson, H.J., Yilmaz, Z., Thornton, L.M., Hübel, C., Coleman, J.R.I., Gaspar, H.A., et al (2019). Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa. Nature Genetics, 51, 1207-1214. PMID: 31308545. PMCID: PMC6779477.
7. Baker, J.H., Johnson, N.K., Munn-Chernoff, M.A., Lichtenstein, P., Larsson, H., Maes, H., Kendler, K.S. (2018). Illicit drug use, cigarette smoking, and eating disorder symptoms: Associations in an adolescent twin sample. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 79, 720-724. PMID: 30422785. PMCID: PMC6240011.
8. Schaumberg, K., Welch, E., Breithaupt, L., Hübel, C., Baker, J.H., Munn-Chernoff, M.A., Yilmaz, Z., Ehrlich, S., Mustelin, L., Ghaderi A., Hardaway, A., Crozier, J.C., Hedman, A.M., Jangmo, A., Nilsson, I.A.K., Wiklund, C., Yao, S., Seidel, M., Bulik-Sullivan, E., Bulik, C.M. (2017). The science behind the Academy for Eating Disorders‘ nine truths about eating disorders. European Eating Disorders Review, 25, 432-450. PMID: 28967161. PMCID: PMC5711426.
9. *Diemer, E.W., Grant, J.D., Munn-Chernoff, M.A., Patterson, D., Duncan, A.E. (2015). Gender identity, sexual orientation, and eating-related pathology in a national sample of college students. Journal of Adolescent Health, 57, 144-149. PMID: 25937471. PMCID: PMC4545276.
10. Munn-Chernoff, M.A., Grant, J.D., Bucholz, K.K., Agrawal, A., Lynskey, M.T., Madden, P.A.F., et al (2015). Bulimic behaviors and early substance use: Findings from a cotwin-control study. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 39, 1740-1748. PMID: 26248308. PMCID: PMC4558316.