Stephanie D. Nichols, Pharm.D., M.P.H., BCPP, FCCP, FAAPP
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Stephanie Nichols (she/her), PharmD, MPH, BCPP, FCCP, FAAPP is an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice in the University of New England School of Pharmacy, Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Tufts University School of Medicine, core faculty for the MMC/Veteran Affairs Addiction Medicine Fellowship, and instructor for the Maine Medical Center Psychiatric Physician Residency Program.
Dr. Nichols earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University at Buffalo and completed an Inpatient Pharmacy Practice Residency at Maine Medical Center. She earned her Master of Public Health degree from the University of New England. She is a Board Certified Psychiatric Pharmacist (BCPP), Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (FCCP ’18), and Fellow of the American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists (FAAPP ’25).
At Maine Medical Center, Dr. Nichols and her students are involved in providing direct patient care to patients with mental illness and substance use disorders, responding to psychopharmacotherapy consults, educating patients and healthcare professionals, and participating in population health endeavors including co-development of order-sets, policies, and procedures
Dr. Nichols is extremely passionate about interprofessional care, education, and research, and about reducing stigma around mental illness and SUDs. Research interests follow.
1) Developing programs and evaluating their ability to optimize the treatment of people with SUDs, prevent development of SUD, particularly in patients with mental illness and/or trauma, and prevent and mitigate medication-related medical problems and adverse effects.
2) Studying epidemiology of substance use, people with SUDs and related morbidity and mortality, medical and non-prescribed substance use, and psychotropic polypharmacy
3) Prospective investigational research about psychotropic medications and/or the interface between medical and psychiatric co-morbidities and associated medications, including drug-drug interactions, drug-disease interactions, and drug-induced diseases or disorders.
Dr. Nichols has co-authored publications in Pharmacotherapy, The Mental Health Clinician, Psychosomatics, Pain, PeerJ, PLOS One, American Journal of Health System Pharmacy, Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, Journal of Maine Medical Center, Pharmacology, Journal of Addiction Medicine, and Journal of Drug and Alcohol Dependence. She has spoken at national pharmacy meetings including the American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists (AAPP/CPNP), American College of Clinical Pharmacists (ACCP), American Pharmacy Association (APhA), and throughout New England.
Dr. Nichols serves as a Senior Editor for the AAPP Psychiatric Review Book and on the Journal of Maine Medical Center Editorial Board. She also serves as an expert consultant for the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry SAMHSA-funded Opioid Response Network, and on the Maine Opioid Response Clinical Advisory Committee, Maine Prescription Monitoring Program Advisory Committee (Chair), Maine Medical Professionals Health Program, ACCP Fellowship Selection Committee, Co-Collaborative Serving Maine Board of Directors, Lunder Dineen Time to Ask Advisory Committee, and the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review's New England Comparative Effectiveness Public Advisory Committee. She includes her students in these meetings and activities whenever possible.