Dr. Nicole Damico Powell is the Associate Program Director and Assistant Professor
for the Physician Assistant Studies program at Ohio Dominican University.
Prior to joining the ODU faculty, Dr. Powell advised and taught undergraduate, graduate,
and professional students at The Ohio State University Colleges of Dentistry and Medicine
in the laboratory and in the classroom. Dr. Powell believes in and has benefitted
greatly from an interdisciplinary approach to clinical education, training, and research.
She has had a long-standing interest in understanding factors that contribute to autoimmune
and infectious disease onset, exacerbation, and resolution. Her research has been
published in top-tier scientific journals, she has authored several reviews and book
chapters, and her work has been presented nationally and internationally.
Dr. Powell is a founding faculty member of the Physician Assistant Studies program
at ODU and has been teaching and coordinating graduate courses in Biomedical Science
as well as undergraduate Immunology since 2012.
In addition to her professional life, Dr. Powell is a wife, mother of three children,
a dog mom of a Shih Tzu and Wheaten Terrier, and a Volleyball coach. In her spare
time, she enjoys reading, writing, cooking, the performing arts, and spending time
with her family.