Nichole Starr, MD

Dr. Nichole Starr is a Trauma and Surgical Critical Care Fellow at University of California, San Francisco. She completed General Surgery Residency at UCSF in 2023 and was a fellow at Lifebox Foundation based in Ethiopia from 2018-2021 and the senior fellow at Lifebox Foundation in 2020-2021, during which time she implemented the Clean Cut program at multiple Ethiopian surgical hospitals. She was an NIH Fogarty Global Health Equity Scholar from 2020-2021 and is currently Surgical Advisor at Lifebox Foundation and an advisor to the Ethiopian Ministry of Health Trauma & Emergency Care Directorate. Her areas of interest are in academic global surgery, surgical quality improvement and infection prevention, and strengthening trauma care systems in resource limited environments, as well as trauma induced coagulopathy and platelet function in injured patients. Dr. Starr served in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia from 2007 - 2009, and has worked in Ethiopia, Brazil and Liberia on health services research including improving surgical safety, quality of surgical and trauma care, and creating tools and technologies for safeguarding surgical providers during the COVID-19 pandemic.