Bret Nicks

MD, MHA, FACEP

Dr. Nicks is a professor and executive vice chair of emergency medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.  He is the past president of the North Carolina College of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Nicks was Chief Medical Officer of the award-winning Wake Forest Baptist Davie Medical Center for nearly a decade and served as the founding Associate Dean for the Wake Forest Office of Global Health.

He has lived, practiced, and led in many resource austere locations globally, although calls the academic tertiary care emergency department his home. He is passionate about, consults and lectures on the interface of clinical quality, leadership and team culture – and is dedicated to developing emergency medicine leaders for the future of our specialty and the transformation of health care.

Dr. Nicks loves anything outdoors, enjoys blogging on various life and leadership topics; www.bretnicksmd.com/blog, and recently published his first book.