In her role, Nicole participates in the development and maintenance of adult monograph content for key drug information referential databases in UpToDate® Lexidrug™, such as the Adult Drug Information Handbook and synthesizes drug dosing content for customers.
Nicole leads the Core Pharmacology referential dosing in hepatic impairment to develop drug content in Lexi-Drugs and Drug Facts & Comparisons, and participates in solid organ transplant, hepatology and gastroenterology harmonization and new content development for various internal medicine topics.
Prior to Wolters Kluwer, Nicole was a tenured professor at the Medical University of South Carolina where she maintained a clinical practice in the care of patients with end-stage kidney and liver disease and abdominal solid organ transplant for over 10 years. Then, in 2015, she pivoted into a role as the director of the quality assurance performance improvement (QAPI) program for adult and pediatric solid organ transplant and later for oversight of the QAPI program for the Medical University of South Carolina Health System. Throughout, she maintained a clinical practice in the post-transplant kidney acute clinic.
Nicole received her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She completed post graduate training the Medical University of South Carolina with a PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency followed by PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Residency. After residency training, Nicole completed a Master of Science in clinical research and a fellowship in transplant clinical research at the University of Cincinnati. She previously served as a Senior Editor for the American Journal of Health System Pharmacy, on the inaugural Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties council on solid organ transplantation pharmacy, and now serves on the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Clinical Practice Special Interest Group (SIG) Steering Committee.