Larry Nichols, M.D. Dr. Nichols is a member of the Division of Anatomic Pathology. More information about this division is available here. Dr. Nichols is the chief of the autopsy service of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Presbyterian, which is a regional autopsy center for affiliated institutions (UPMC-Shadyside, UPMC-Southside, UPMC-Passavant, UPMC-Braddock, UPMC-McKeesport and Magee) and private autopsies from non-affiliated institutions and individuals. He presents interesting and important autopsy cases to attending physicians and resident physicians at UPMC Presbyterian and other UPMC hospitals. He also teaches basic pathology and cardiac pathology in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine as well as teaching undergraduate pre-medicine students the study of disease in an evening course on his own time. He serves on the Patient Safety Committees of UPMC Presbyterian and the UPMC System. He has signed out general surgical pathology biopsies and large specimens, as well as performing frozen sections at UPMC Presbyterian in the past. He has also staffed perinatal autopsies and signed out placentas and related specimens at the Magee-Womens Hospital. He has worked as an all-around community hospital pathologist at UPMC-Southside in the past. Prior to coming to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, he did autopsies of AIDS patients from all of Los Angeles County at the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center. He did his residency in pathology and his internship in internal medicine at the New England Deaconess Hospital-Harvard Medical School. Dr. Nichols holds an MD degree from the University of Wisconsin and an MA in philosophy (ethics and epistemology). Office Location: Rm. A610, Scaife Hall Dept. of Pathology UPMC-Presbyterian 200 Lothrop Street Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2582 Contact Information: Office Telephone: (412) 647-3936 Email Address: nicholsla@upmc.edu Research Interests: Dr. Nichols' research interests are in the use of autopsy findings for the improvement of patient safety (quality improvement), the causes of sudden unexpected death in hospital patients, the causes of death of transplant patients and aspects of cardiac pathology. Selected Publications: Nichols L, Dickson G, Phan PG, Kant JA. Iron binding saturation and genotypic testing for hereditary hemochromatosis in patients with liver disease. Am J Clin Pathol 2006 Feb;125(2):236-40. O'Connor S, Recavarren R, Nichols L, Parwani A. Lipomatous hypertrophy of the interatrial septum: An overview. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2006 Mar;130(3):397-99. Triulzi D, Duquesnoy R, Nichols L, Clark K, Jukic D, Zeevi A, Meisner D. Fatal transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease in an immunocompetent recipient of a volunteer unit of red cells. Transfusion 2006 Jun;46(6):878-80. Torbenson M, Wang J, Nichols L, Jain A, Fung J, Nalesnik M. Causes of death in autopsied liver transplant patients. Mod Pathol 1998 Jan;11(1):37-46 Nichols L, Aronica P, Babe C. Are autopsies obsolete? Am J Clin Pathol 1998 Aug;110(2):210-8