Nicole Rich, MD MSCS is a transplant hepatologist, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Associate Director of Clinical Research in the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases at UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) in Dallas, Texas. She earned her medical degree at the Ohio State College of Medicine and completed internal medicine residency, gastroenterology fellowship and transplant hepatology training at UTSW, where she also earned a Master of Science in clinical research. Her clinical expertise is in the management of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and she serves as the Associate Director of the Liver Tumor Program at the UTSW Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Dr. Rich is a clinical investigator active in health services and disparities research. The core focus of her research is to understand and identify mechanisms contributing to racial, ethnic, gender and socioeconomic disparities in outcomes among patients with chronic liver disease and 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. Her research is supported by the National Cancer Institute/NIH, Texas Health Resources Clinical Scholar Award and the American College of Gastroenterology. She also serves as co-investigator for several NIH-funded and Cancer Prevention and Research Institution of Texas (CPRIT) grants on the topics of HCC prognosis and prevention.
