Nicole Tuchinda, Esq., MD, LLM

Nicole is the Robert J. David Distinguished Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Health Law Program at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, where she won the 2025 Faculty Senate Award for Excellence in Research. Her scholarship, which has been published by journals including New York University Law Review and Kentucky Law Journal, focuses on preventing and healing childhood trauma; social determinants of health; education; disability; and health justice. She directed the Juvenile and Special Education Law Clinic at the University of the District of Columbia and was a founding co-fellow of the Health Justice Alliance, a medical-legal partnership clinic at Georgetown University Law Center. She was an associate at Ropes & Gray, LLP and Associate Chief Counsel for Enforcement at U.S. Food and Drug Administration. She has an LL.M. from Georgetown University; M.D. from Johns Hopkins University; J.D. from George Washington University; and a B.A. from Yale College.