Dr. Nagel is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at Oregon Health & Science University, where she also serves as interim chief research officer, executive vice president, and director of the Steven J. Sharp Center for Mental Health Innovation (CMHI).  

Dr. Nagel's research focuses on identifying biopsychosocial predictors of mental health problems in youth, with goals to ultimately inform more targeted precision mental health identification, intervention, and problem prevention efforts. Dr. Nagel’s Developmental Brain Imaging Laboratory has been conducting longitudinal neuroimaging studies of Portland-area youth for nearly two decades, with aims toward identifying neurobiological markers of risk and resilience for psychopathology, including depression, suicidality, and addiction, with hopes of ultimately informing more targeted intervention and prevention efforts. 

She is a Principal Investigator on several federally-funded National multi-site projects toward that end, including the National Consortium on Alcohol & Neurodevelopment in Adolescence (NCANDA),the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study (ABCD), and the NIMH initiative, Individually Measured Phenotypes to Advance Computational Translation (IMPACT) in Mental Health.