Biography

Will Nicholson M.D. practices family medicine a few miles from where he grew up in Minnesota.

He attended college at the University of Minnesota, Duluth and received a Major in German Language and Literature and a Minor in Chemistry. Dr. Nicholson was uninsured for a year after his college graduation while he applied to medical school and tried out for the U.S. Olympic Cross Country Ski Team. (Obviously one of those attempts went better than the other.) He attended medical school at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, then completed a 3 year Family Medicine residency at St. John's Hospital and Phalen Village Clinic in St. Paul Minnesota.

Dr. Nicholson has the greatest job in the world as a Family Physician. He works at St. John's hospital in Maplewood, Minnesota. He is currently researching the health insurance market from the consumer stand-point. He also has ongoing research in the area of sports medicine. He participates in health care reform because America's patch-work health insurance system makes it hard both for patients to access his services and for him to do his job helping them. He is currently an active member of the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians, the Minnesota Medical Association, the Society of Hospital Medicine.  He is interested in a wide variety of health care reform organizations.

Will Nicholson's commentary Why I said 'no' to my employer's health plan won national attention as part of America's health care reform debate.  He is currently working on interim findings for his health insurance purchasing project.