Education

• Medical School, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 1997
• PhD, Doctorate in Neurosciences, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1997
• Residency, General Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, 1998-1999
• General Surgery, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI, 1999-2003
• Fellowship, Pediatric Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 2003-2005

Clinical Specialties

Dr. Nichol is certified by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery and Pediatric Surgery. He specializes in all types of pediatric surgical cases and has a special interest in children with short gut syndrome otherwise known as intestinal failure. He’s also interested in the development of the intestine and in birth defects involving the intestine and the abdominal wall. He specializes in minimally invasive surgery.

For a complete listing of conditions our pediatric surgeons provide treatment for, please click here.

Research Interests

Dr. Nichol’s laboratory research focuses on intestinal development with a goal of developing therapies that will enable growth of the gut in patients with intestinal failure.

Recent Publications

• Formation of intestinal atresias in the Fgfr2IIIb-/- mice is not associated with defects in notochord development or alterations in Shh expression.
  Reeder AL, Botham RA, Franco M, Zaremba KM, Nichol PF
  The Journal of surgical research 2012 Apr 29.
  [PubMed ID: 22572615]
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• Gastroschisis.
  Nichol PF
  BMJ 2011; 343():d7124.
  [PubMed ID: 22089733]
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• A more efficient method to generate null mutants using Hprt-Cre with floxed alleles.
  Nichol PF, Botham R, Saijoh Y, Reeder AL, Zaremba KM
  J. Pediatr. Surg. 2011 Sep; 46(9):1711-9.
  [PubMed ID: 21929979, PMC ID: 3177085]
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• Enlarging unilateral breast mass in an adolescent male: an unusual presentation of intraductal papilloma.
  Durkin ET, Warner TF, Nichol PF
  J. Pediatr. Surg. 2011 May; 46(5):e33-5.
  [PubMed ID: 21616226]
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• Pitx2 is a critical early regulatory gene in normal cecal development.
  Nichol PF, Saijoh Y
  J. Surg. Res. 2011 Sep; 170(1):107-11.
  [PubMed ID: 21550054, PMC ID: 3154571]
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