Megan Single, MD

Megan Single

Undergraduate School
Rollins College

Medical School
University of Kentucky

Residency Program
University of Florida
 

Interests & Career Goals

My long-term goal is to work as a psychiatrist across the lifespan, with a balance between early intervention that may alter the course of a life and later-life support where helping patients understand the past can guide them through the present. Within CAP, I'm interested in pediatric catatonia, NMDA encephalitis, consult-liaison psychiatry, and work with neurodevelopmentally different patients. I would also like to continue to work with the severely mentally ill adult population through street psychiatry, an assertive community treatment model, or something similar. I will be pursuing forensic psychiatry fellowship next, and look forward to the way in which I will incorporate all of this training into a future career serving severely mentally ill children and adults.

Favorite Pastimes

I love to travel and experience other cultures, 20 countries and counting! My favorite pastime at home is writing, and one of my goals is to become a published author. I'm also an avid tennis player and played in multiple USTA leagues during residency and now during fellowship (the Triangle has a robust tennis community!). Skiing is also a favorite, but Florida isn’t exactly the place for that, so maybe I'll get back to it now that I'm closer to mountains. I'm also heavily involved in AACAP, as an appointed committee member to the medical student and resident committee, the psychotherapy committee, and the training and education committee. I also have the great privilege of serving as the AACAP Jerry M. Wiener Resident Member of Council this year, representing trainees at large and working with the AACAP Executive Council to promote trainee initiatives.

Strengths of the Program

What drew me to Duke initially is the strong experience in consult-liaison psychiatry within the children's hospital, as well as rotating at the state hospital for exposure to a more severely ill population of children. I was also impressed by all of my interactions with faculty, and when I met Dr. Chandrasekhar at AACAP, she was just as genuine and welcoming as she comes across in the interview. I have been incredibly grateful this year for that supportive environment at an institution filled with learning opportunities. One of my favorite parts of training at Duke is all of the opportunities that exist for higher learning outside of the fellowship itself. From the Duke Center for Spirituality, Theology, and Health to the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine, the possibilities to learn have been endless.

Research Interests

I will be completing the Trent Center Fellowship in Clinical Ethics from July 2024 to June 2025, working on a research project that bridges my interests in psychiatry, child development, forensics, and ethics. Over the course of my career, I am also interested in joining the force of further research into catatonia spectrum disorders within the pediatric autism population.

Publications/Abstracts

  • Habboush Y, Hollant L, Smart B, SINGLE MP, Gaines K, Patel A, Miller RC. (2016, Jun). Characteristics and Patterns of Rare Malignancies Published in Rare Tumors. Rare Tumors, 8(2), 6148. Cited in PubMed; PMID: 27441071. Pub Status: Published.

  • Habboush Y, Shannon RP, Niazi SK, Hollant L, SINGLE MP, Gaines K, Smart B et al. (2017, Mar). Patient-reported distress and survival among patients receiving definitive radiation therapy. Advances in Radiation Oncology, 2(2), 211-219. Cited in PubMed; PMID: 28740934. Pub Status: Published.
    Patel AB, Tzou KS, SINGLE MP, Hollant L, Smart B, Gaines K, Sherman C, Peterson JL, Ko SJ, Vallow LA, Miller RC, Buskirk SJ. (2018, Jan). Radiation Therapy Prophylaxis for Heterotopic Ossification in Non-Hip Sites. Journal of Cancer Therapy, 9(1), 1-8. Pub Status: Published.

 

Other Articles

  • Single, M., Li, E., Fleet, B. (2024 July/August). AACAP News Spotlight Article: Funding the Next Generation of Child Psychiatrists, Thank You Donors! AACAP News, Accepted for Publication.
  • Bala, A., Chakraborty, A., Chawla, R., Chou, S., Kawanishi, C., Onyejiaka, C., Single, M., Chan, V (2024 May/June). CAPturing Peer Mentorship across the Career Span to Sustain our Village. AACAP News, Accepted for Publication.
  • Single, M. (2023 November/December). Out with the Old, In with the New... and Who Knows, the Next Could be You! AACAP News 54(6), 300-301.
  • Single, M. (2022 January/February). Using the Creative Arts to Extinguish the Matchbox of Games that Fuel the Fire Called Burnout. AACAP News 53(1), 26-27.
  • Wagner, ES., Single, MP., Kramer, DA. (2021 January/February). The Generational Magic of AACAP: Spontaneous Town Meetings. AACAP News 52(1), 24-25

Poster Presentations

  • Gaines K, Hollant L, Smart B, SINGLE MP, Habboush J, Tzou KS, Ko S, Biers H, Day A, Wert K, May BC, Miller RC. (2016, February 01). Patient reported distress in head and neck cancer patients receiving radiotherapy. [Abstract] Journal of Clinical Oncology. [Poster presented]. 2016 Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium/Scottsdale, AZ, USA.
     
  • Habboush J, Shannon RP, Hollant L, SINGLE MP, Gaines K, Smart B, Buskirk SJ, Vallow L, Tzou KS, Ko S, Peterson JL, Biers H, Day A, May BC, Miller RC. (2016, June 01). Patient reported distress and survival after palliative radiotherapy. [Abstract] Journal of Clinical Oncology. [Poster presented]. 2016 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting/Chicago, IL, USA.
     
  • Habboush J, Shannon RP, Hollant L, SINGLE MP, Gaines K, Smart B, Buskirk SJ, Vallow L, Tzou KS, Ko S, Peterson JL, Biers H, Day A, Miller RC. (2016, January 01). Patient distress and survival in palliative radiotherapy. [Abstract] Journal of Clinical Oncology. [Poster presented]. 2016 Cancer Survivorship Symposium/San Francisco, CA, USA.
     
  • Habboush Y, Shannon RP, Niazi SK, Hollant L, SINGLE MP, Gaines K, Smart B et al. (2016, September 01). Patient reported distress is associated with decreased survival in cancer patients treated with definitive radiotherapy. [Abstract] International Journal of Radiation Oncology. [Poster presented]. 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)/Boston, MA, USA.
     
  • Hollant L, SINGLE MP, Gaines K, Smart B, Habboush J, Kaleem T, Tzou KS, Ko S, Biers H, Day A, Miller RC. (2016, January 01). Assessing distress in patients with gastrointestinal tumors during radiotherapy. [Abstract] Journal of Clinical Oncology. [Poster presented]. 2016 Annual Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium/San Francisco, CA, USA.
     
  • Jagadesh N, Whitaker D, Strong G, Hollant L, SINGLE MP et al. (2017, September 01). Financial toxicity concerns are associated with overall levels of patient reported distress during radiotherapy. [Abstract] International Journal of Radiation Oncology. [Poster presented]. 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)/San Diego, CA, USA.
     
  • Kaleem T, Hollant L, SINGLE MP, Gaines K, Habboush J, Biers H, Day A, Miller RC. (2016, October 01). Evaluation of Causes of Distress in Patients with Lung Tumors Treated with Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy. [Abstract] CHEST Journal. [Poster presented]. 2016 CHEST Annual Meeting/Los Angeles, CA, USA.
     
  • Mihalik-Wenger A, Wenger J, Butler B, Amicarelli A, Plante J, SINGLE M, Stephen A, Bulleit C, Hobbs J, Rodriguez-Roman L. (2022, April 29). Reducing Preventable Readmissions to UF Health Psychiatric Hospital [Poster presented]. 12th Annual QI Day, Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida College of Medicine, Awarded First Place/Gainesville, FL, USA.
     
  • Mihalik-Wenger A, Wenger J, Butler B, Amicarelli A, Plante J, SINGLE M, Stephen A, Thornton JE, Hobbs JA, Fleisch S. (2021, April 30). Medical Incapacity Hold (MIH): An Ongoing Quality Improvement Project [Poster presented]. 11th Annual QI Day, Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida College of Medicine, Awarded First Place/Gainesville, FL, USA.
     
  • SINGLE MP, Hollant L, Gaines K, Smart B, Habboush Y, Biers H, Day A, Miller R, Vallow L, Tzou K. (2015, October 01). Patient reported distress symptoms in patients undergoing palliative radiotherapy. [Abstract] Journal of Clinical Oncology. [Poster presented]. 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology Palliative Care in Oncology Symposium/Boston, MA, USA.
     
  • Smart B, Hollant L, SINGLE MP, Gaines K, Habboush Y, Biers H, Day A, Miller RC, Tzou K, Vallow L. (2015, September 01). Patient reported distress screening outcomes in breast cancer. [Abstract] Journal of Clinical Oncology. [Poster presented]. 2015 Breast Cancer Symposium/San Francisco, CA, USA.

Oral Presentations

  • Co-chair of 2023 AACAP Annual Meeting MSR Breakfast, titled "Healthcare Heroes Are Human Too, the Importance of Healers Holding Hands in Every Stage."
     
  • Clinical Case Conference at 2022 AACAP Annual Meeting, presented a case related to human trafficking to highlight specific challenges related to documenting sensitive clinical documentation in the electronic health record.
     
  • Co-chair of 2020, 2021, 2022 AACAP Annual Meeting Owl Life Member mentorship event to bring together young trainees with seasoned child and adolescent psychiatrists to share experience and gain wisdom.