Professor of Translational Medicine, Scripps Research

Laura Nicholson received her medical and doctoral degrees at SUNY Buffalo in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. She joined Scripps Clinic in 2006 as a hospitalist and associate program director of the Internal Medicine Residency, leading the evidence-based medicine curriculum and directing the residency research program. In 2012, she joined the Scripps Research Translational Institute as co-director of Education for the NIH-funded Clinical and Translational Science Award graduate scholars program, guiding physician-scholars through master's degrees in clinical and translational investigation and linking graduate and postdoctoral trainees to clinical research collaborators.

Nicholson’s research centers on evidence-based practice principles and how best to promote them amongst active clinicians, clinical faculty, residents and medical students. She brings this emphasis to physician and graduate scholars within the Department of Translational Medicine who apply genomic, bioinformatic and other translational methodologies to clinical studies of various disease states. She has been honored by many student and resident teaching awards in her faculty roles at Scripps Research, the University of California, San Diego, and Stanford University.