Chris Nicholas

Dr. Christopher Nicholas is an Assistant Professor and clinical health psychologist and neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health. His research focuses on psychedelic and other psychoactive compounds for addiction, trauma, chronic pain, and depression. He serves as a site co-PI on the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Phase 3 multi-site clinical trial of the safety and efficacy of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for severe PTSD. Dr. Nicholas also provides specialty clinical services in the overlapping areas of chronic pain, addiction, and trauma and is a behavioral health supervisor for the UW Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program. He earned his PhD in clinical psychology and neuroscience at the University of Tennessee and completed his internship in health psychology and post-doctoral fellowship in multi-modal neuroimaging at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.