Taylor Nichols, MD

Dr. Taylor Nichols is a board-certified physician in both emergency medicine and addiction medicine. He has worked in settings ranging from urban trauma centers and large academic centers to ski resorts and remote critical access hospitals.

He currently works as an assistant clinical professor at UCSF both in emergency medicine and on the inpatient addiction medicine consult service, in an addiction medicine clinic called Transitions Clinic of Sacramento, and as a supervising physician of a residential treatment program. 

He completed medical school at the UC Davis School of Medicine, emergency medicine residency at UCSF-San Francisco General Hospital, fellowship training in Health Policy and Advocacy at UC Davis Medical Center, and is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Health Policy and Law through a joint program of UCSF and UC Law SF.

Additionally, he serves as a consultant for the Netflix series Pulse, serves on the Board of Directors of Sacramento Street Medicine as the Director of Strategic Initiatives, and does advocacy work with California ACEP, the California Medical Association, the California Society of Addiction Medicine, and the American Society of Addiction Medicine. 

He is passionate about health equity and vulnerable populations, social and political determinants of health, health systems reform, physician wellness, and health care innovation.