Biography

Nickels is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology at Mayo Clinic. She is certified in Neurology, with special qualifications in Child Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology, and Epilepsy. She has expertise in pediatric epilepsy and analysis of clinical EEG, both scalp and intracranial recordings, as well as treating pediatric epilepsy through pharmacologic, dietary, and surgical methods. Her research experience includes multiple epidemiology studies regarding diagnosis, treatment, and outcome of pediatric epilepsy. Furthermore, she has expertise in teaching maturational changes in EEG and is the EEG course coordinator for both the Neurology residents and fellows, and also for the Clinical Neurophysiology Tech program. Finally, she also collaborates with pediatric epilepsy specialists throughout the country through the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium (PERC) to determine best practices and treatments for early onset pediatric epilepsy encephalopathies, with particular attention to infantile spasms/West Syndrome and epilepsy with myoclonic atonic seizures/Doose syndrome.

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Research Interest

Child Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology, and Epilepsy