Katrina Sandoval Nickels, MD
Addiction Medicine Fellow Physician
University of Kentucky
Katrina Nickels, MD, is an Addiction Medicine Fellow at the University of Kentucky Department of Psychiatry in Lexington. She trained at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and Internal Medicine residency program and obtained her hospice and palliative board certification through the practice pathway. She has over a decade experience at Bluegrass Care Navigators as an Associate Hospice Medical Director, a community-based palliative physician in clinic, home and nursing home settings, and as an inpatient palliative care consultant in community and tertiary care settings. She was active in Opioid Stewardship and Pain Management Committees at the state and hospital-based healthcare organization levels. She currently serves as an officer in the KY Chapter of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Her clinical interests are in the intersection of palliative care with chronic pain management and addiction medicine. She has presented at various KY state level conferences on opioid safety in pain and palliative care, as well as at national conferences on the collaboration of palliative and addiction medicine. She initiated a multi-institutional multi-specialty telementoring educational collaborative with a regular journal club and case discussion to support clinicians in the management of patients with serious illness, complex pain, and substance use.
