Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Vanderbilt University
Maribeth Nicholson is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition at Vanderbilt. She received her medical degree from the Penn State College of Medicine and completed her pediatric residency and fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. During her fellowship training she completed a Master’s of Public Health in Epidemiology and began studies on the impact and management of C. difficile infections in children. She joined the faculty at Vanderbilt in 2014 and has continued to focus her research efforts on the study of C. difficile in children. She has established a C. difficile and Dysbiosis clinic and was the first at Vanderbilt to perform Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) for the care of recurrent and refractory C. diff. She has subsequently led and published a compilation of national data on FMT in children, for which she was awarded the NASPGHAN Young Faculty Clinical Investigator Award. Her work has been funded through a Gastroenterology T32 award, a Thrasher Early Career Award, and the Vanderbilt KL2 program to study C. difficile infections in children. She has also had a successful recent NIH K23 submission.
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Saturday, October 24, 2020
10:00am – 11:15am EDT