The Richmond Observer – WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH: Nicholson a trailblazer in women’s health, medical research

Our featured major girl now grew up in Rockingham and has grow to be a single marvel of a lady in business, education and learning, medicine, study, and several other management posts.

Dr. Wanda Nicholson graduated from Richmond Senior Superior School in 1982, from the College of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1990 as a Medical doctor of Medicine (M.D.), and yet again from UNC in 1994 from the Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency System, the College of California-Berkeley in 1996 with a Master’s diploma in Epidemiology, the College of California-San Francisco in 1996 from the Robert Wooden Johnson Medical Students Application, and the Johns Hopkins University Carey Small business School with a Master’s of Company Administration in Health care Management in 2005. 

Although you may possibly be already taken aback just by reading through her schooling qualifications, Nicholson’s academic accomplishments are just the icing on her quite attained multi-tiered cake.       

Nicholson is a dual-skilled health practitioner in obstetrics and gynecology and epidemiology, chair of the American Higher education of Obstetrics and Gynecologists’ Doing the job Group on Variety, Equity, and Inclusive Excellence, and a former member of the United States Preventive Providers Undertaking Drive.

She is a researcher in populace overall health and overall health equity, inhabitants enhancement, and obtain to treatment for rural populations. Her research focuses on facilities on social determinants of health and management of diabetes and cardiovascular ailment. She has scientific and study skills in community well being, health and fitness disparities and the small business of drugs.

Nicholson focused on alternatives in health-related university management, the community wellbeing and nonprofit sectors or in just study businesses or the place she can leverage her prior encounters in clinical and public wellness management, proof-primarily based care and neighborhood/stakeholder partnerships. She is dedicated to developing a strategic vision for population health and fitness and well being fairness for corporations and creating and operationalizing research priorities and general performance measures for benefit-based care and far better health and fitness outcomes. 

In 2016, she was awarded Client Centered Results Analysis Institute funding for DiabetesSisters Community, an on the net social networking tool to have interaction women of all ages residing with diabetes. On March 17, 2022, she was named vice chair for U.S. Preventive Services Endeavor Force. 

Nicholson is certified in obstetrics and gynecology and has energetic professional medical licenses in North Carolina, Maryland and California. She serves as the chair of the Committee on Childbirth and Postpartum Hemorrhage. 

Join us these days in celebrating this female who has committed her occupation to aiding other gals for her ongoing accomplishments as a transformative wellness treatment chief, an educator, researcher, trailblazer, and for representing Richmond County so effectively. 

Meghann Lambeth is govt director of the Richmond County Tourism Enhancement Authority. Republished from visitrichmondcounty.com. Throughout March, Go to Richmond County will characteristic a neighborhood primary girl in honor of Women’s Record Month.