Nicole D. Ferrante MD

Dr. Nicole Ferrante is a clinical research fellow in gastroenterology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin where she majored in microbiology and received her medical degree from Texas Tech University, where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and the Gold Humanism Honor Society. She completed her internal medicine training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where she stayed for GI fellowship training.

Dr. Ferrante’s clinical interests are in advanced endoscopy and pancreatobiliary diseases. Her research interests are in cholangiocarcinoma and biliary strictures and her research is supported by a T32 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Currently, she is in the process of obtaining her Masters in Statistics and Clinical Epidemiology during her second and third years of GI fellowship. She has experience using large healthcare databases including Optum claims data (which she used to describe the hepatitis C care cascade among a sample of insured individuals in the US) and national Veterans Affairs data (which she is using to create case-finding algorithms for cholangiocarcinoma and its subtypes). She also has experience working with biospecimens and clinical data from a longitudinal multicenter cohort study, which she used to determine the prevalence and risk factors of hepatitis delta among a sample of HIV/HBV-coinfected individuals and this work was supported by a grant she received from the Penn Center for AIDS Research. Dr. Ferrante will be going to the University of Miami for her advanced endoscopy fellowship during the 2023-2024 academic year.