Nicole Tuchinda, MD, JD

Nicole Tuchinda is an M.D., J.D. who co-founded a medical-legal partnership clinic at Georgetown University Law Center and currently directs a Health Law Program at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law.

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She writes on topics such as health justice, the imperative of making special education and disability law trauma-responsive, the cessation of school seclusion, restraint, and corporal punishment, and the role of education as a social determinant of health. Her scholarly articles have been featured in the New York University Law Review and Kentucky Law Review.

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Having taught at law schools in New Orleans, Memphis, and Washington, D.C., Nicole aspires to see medical-legal partnerships thrive not only in Texas but across the entire United States. Her professional background includes positions at the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, Ropes & Gray LLP, and the chambers of a U.S. District Court Judge.