Oscar Nicholson Jr., MD, FACS, a General Surgeon with Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital & St. Vincent Charity Medical Center
Get to know General Surgeon Dr. Oscar Nicholson Jr., who serves patients in Mayfield Heights and Cleveland, Ohio.
In practice since 1992, Dr. Nicholson Jr. is a seasoned general surgeon performing surgical procedures to treat conditions affecting the abdomen and related structures. Currently, he can be found on staff at Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital & St. Vincent Charity Medical Center.
A part of the Cleveland Clinic Health System, Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital is a comprehensive-care hospital on Mayfield Road in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. It currently has 500 registered beds, and serves as a level II trauma center for eastern Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, and Portage counties. The mission of Cleveland Clinic is to provide better care of the sick, investigation into their problem, and further education of those served.
St. Vincent Charity Medical Center is a medical facility in Cleveland, Ohio. It was founded in 1865 under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland. Everyone at St. Vincent Charity Medical Center is devoted to the mission to treat every patient with clinical excellence and compassionate care.
With a broad educational background, Dr. Nicholson Jr. graduated with his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1986. He then went on to perform his residencies in general surgery at Lutheran Medical Center and St. Luke’s Hospital.
A Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS), the doctor is board-certified in general surgery by the American Board of Surgery (ABS). The ABS is an independent, non-profit organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded for the purpose of certifying surgeons who have met a defined standard of education, training, and knowledge.
Alongside his clinical role, Dr. Nicholson Jr. serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at Northeast Ohio Medical University.
General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland. A general surgeon performs a wide range of abdominal surgeries for many forms of intestinal and abdominal wall neoplasms, gallbladder disease, gastric and pancreatic disease. They follow the patient through critical care and surgical recovery all the way to outpatient care.
Learn more about Dr. Oscar Nicholson Jr.:
Through his findatopdoc profile, https://www.findatopdoc.com/doctor/82738498-Oscar-Nicholson-Jr-Surgeon, through Cleveland Clinic, https://my.clevelandclinic.org/staff/93975-oscar-nicholson or through St. Vincent Charity Medical Center, https://www.stvincentcharity.com/physicians/oscar-nicholson/
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