Megan Kirk Chang

University of Oxford

BIOGRAPHY

Megan Kirk Chang is a Senior Researcher in Metabolic Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, where she develops and evaluates digital lifestyle-based interventions targeting metabolic and mental health in people with serious mental illness. She co-led the landmark DIME trial investigating a ketogenic diet for treatment-resistant depression.

Megan is the Inaugural NexJ Health Metabolic Psychiatry Fellow through an NIHR Innovation Fellowship, developing digitally supported ketogenic and GLP-1 lifestyle programmes integrating AI-assisted coaching, wearable technology, and behavioural adherence science.