Dr. Nicholson is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Gynecology and Obstetrics and Population and Family Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Nicholson is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and a perinatal epidemiologist. She is a fellow in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). Dr. Nicholson received her medical degree and completed internship and residency in obstetrics and gynecology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Following residency, she completed the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of California at San Francisco and obtained a Masters degree in Epidemiology from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Nicholson is involved in research and clinical activities. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of chronic conditions in women, including gestational diabetes, type 2 diabetes, obesity and the effect of depressive symptoms on health-related quality of life. She is the principal investigator for two cohort studies funded through the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society. Through funding from the American Diabetes Association (ADA), Dr. Nicholson has developed a postpartum-specific weight loss intervention, First WIND (Weight-loss Interventions after Delivery), for women at risk for type 2 diabetes which is currently being piloted among urban-based women in Baltimore City. She is an investigator with the Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice Center where she was the PI of the task report on Labor and Postpartum Management of Gestational Diabetes, funded through the Agency for Health Care Quality. Dr. Nicholson is an oral board examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is a member of the ACOG National Committee on Health Care for Underserved Women and has served on the ADA Epidemiology Council Scientific Meeting Committee. She is a member of the Society of Gynecologic Investigation and the American Public Health Association. In 2005, she was selected for membership in Alpha Phi Omega, a public health honor society, for her work in the epidemiology of women’s health. Dr. Nicholson’s work in postpartum weight-loss interventions has been presented in Diabetes Forefront and Diabetes Forecast. Most recently, she was the ACOG nominee for the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on the Healthy People 2020 Objectives on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2020.

Population and Family Health Sciences, health services research, women's health care, perinatal health, epidemiology

American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society

Research Award, 2001-2004

Robert Wood Johnson Faculty Development Award,

2001-2004

HRSA Primary Care Policy Fellow, 1999

McCain Health Policy Fellowship, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 1998

William J. Fulbright Fellow to Cape Town, South Africa, 1997

John Motley Morehead Finalist, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1982

9. Nicholson WK, Fox HE, Powe NR. Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Four Screening Strategies for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Diabetes Care 2005: 28 (6): 1484-1486.

10. Nicholson WK, Grason HA, Powe NR. The Association between Women’s Health Care Use and Health Care Visits. Women’s Health Issues 2005; 15(6): 240-248.

11. Nicholson WK, Robinson KA, Smallridge R, Ladenson P, Powe NR. Prevalence of postpartum

thyroiditis: A Systematic, Quantitative Review Thyroid 2006 16(6): 573-582.

12. Nicholson WK, Setse R, Hill-Briggs F, Strobino D, Cooper LA, Powe NR. Depressive

Symptoms and Health-Related Quality of Life in Early Pregnancy. Obstetrics and

Gynecology 2006 107(4): 798-806

13. Nicholson WK, Fox HE, Cooper LA, Witter F, Strobino DS, Powe NR. Maternal Race,

Procedures, and Infant Birthweight in Type 2 and Gestational Diabetes. Obstetrics and

Gynecology 2006 108; 3(pt 1): 626-634

14. Nicholson WK, Asao K, Coresh J, Pankow JS, Brancati FL, Powe NR. Effect of

Grandmultiparity on the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: The Atherosclerosis Risk in

Communities (ARIC) Study. Diabetes Care 2006; 29(11): 2349-2354.

15. Setse R, Grogan R, Strobino D, Cooper LA, Powe NR, Nicholson WK. Attitudes toward

postpartum weight loss among pregnant, African-American Women Maternal and Child Health Journal 2008; 12(1): 119-127 (Epub 2007 June 7).

16. Schmitt NM, Nicholson WK, Schmitt J. The Association of Pregnancy with the Development of Obesity-results of a systematic review and meta-analysis on the natural history of postpartum weight retention. International Journal of Obesity 2007; 31(11):1642-51 (Epub, 2007 July 3).

17. Kim Hyun, Czuczman Gregory J., Nicholson WK, Pham LM, Richman JM. A Comparison of Clinical Efficacies with Morphine and Fentanyl Patient-Controlled Analgesia within 24-Hour after Uterine Artery Embolization. Cardivascular and Interventional Radiology, (In press).

18. Nicholson WK, Wilson L, Witkop C, Baptiste-Roberts K, Bennett W, Bolen S, Barone B, Golden SH, Gary TL, Neale D, Bass E. Therapeutic Management, Delivery, and Postpartum Risk Assessment and Screening in Gestational Diabetes. Evid Rep Technol Assess (Full Rep) (In press).

19. Stubblefield P, Coonrod D, Reddy U, Sayegh R, Nicholson WK. The Clinical Content of Preconception Care: Reproductive History. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (In press,)