Nicole McHale, MD
Clinical Instructor
Medicine
School of Medicine

nicole.giddensmchale@ucsf.edu

For Nicole, her career trajectory has always been centered around global health. It started in her undergraduate days when she helped lead the Cornell University chapter of GlobeMed, a national non-profit organization that pairs universities with different international partners, with Cornell's being CEPAIPA - a grassroots, high school-based community health center in La Libertad, Ecuador.

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After that she joined the United States Peace Corps, in which she served as a health and education volunteer in rural Namibia, helping run a village clinic and organizing health educational demonstrations for the village community members. This trajectory continued throughout her medical education. During medical school at The University of Queensland/Ochsner Clinical School in Australia, she underwent a community health rotation in rural India. Then in IM residency at University of Louisville, she spent an away rotation in Mwanza, Tanzania. While in Tanzania, she also joined current ongoing research funded by the Cornell University Global Health Department, looking at topics such as bedside echocardiography, heart failure, and the relation to HIV. She then continued to grow her passion for global health through a Global Health Fellowship with the Botswana Harvard Partnership and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She now joins UCSF as a new Clinical Instructor, with the intention of continuing global health work through the many opportunities provided by UCSF and the Institute for Global Health Sciences.

Awards

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  • 1st Place – Doctor’s Dilemma Competition, American College of Physicians (ACP) Kentucky Chapter, 2022
  • Academic Achievement Award – Ranked top 10 in UQ-Ochsner Class of 2019, The University of Queensland/Ochsner Clinical School, 2019
  • Examiner’s Award for Best Research for Type II Diabetes Mellitus in Indigenous Australians, Indigenous Health Student-Led Symposium, 2016
  • Woodford Stage Persuasive Speaking Contest Winner, Cornell University Communications Department, 2013

Education & Training

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  • Global Health Fellowship Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School 06/2024
  • Residency University of Louisville 06/2023
  • MD University of Queensland/Ochsner Clinical School 12/2019
  • BS Biological Sciences, Minor in Global Health Cornell University 05/2014

Interests

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  • Curriculum Development
  • Medical Education
  • Global Health
  • Quality Improvement