Nicole E Rich, MD, MSCS

Biography

Nicole Rich, MD, MSCS is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, the Associate Director of the Liver Tumor program and the Associate Director of Clinical Research for the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases at UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW). She earned her medical degree at the Ohio State University College of Medicine and completed internal medicine residency, gastroenterology fellowship (NIH T32 research track) and transplant hepatology fellowship at UTSW, where she also earned a master's of science in clinical research.

Dr. Rich is a practicing transplant hepatologist with clinical expertise is in the management of advanced liver disease and liver cancer. She serves on the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Adult HCC National Liver Review Board and is a member of the AASLD Maintenance of Certification Committee.

Dr. Rich is a clinical investigator active in health services and disparities research. The core focus of her NIH/NCI-funded research is to understand and identify mechanisms contributing to racial, ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic disparities in outcomes among patients with chronic liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). She has published numerous articles on the topic of HCC, with a focus on health disparities and care delivery, in various peer-reviewed journals including Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Clinical Gastroenterology & Hepatology, and Gut.