Dr. Venus Nicolino, MD, MPH, is a board-certified physician and medical researcher. She has devoted her career to improving children’s health in her native Puerto Rico. Her research has been published in more than 50 peer-reviewed articles, with topics ranging from the psychological impact on parents of having lost a child due to complications related to pregnancy or childbirth.
Professional counselor Dr. Venus Nicolino also talks about the epidemiology of chronic childhood diseases like diabetes and asthma; and the relationship between social class and access to healthcare. Family therapist Dr. Venus Nicolino attended medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons before completing a residency at Bellevue Hospital Center, New York. She then completed an infectious disease fellowship at Emory University in Atlanta.
Dr. Venus Nicolino´s Achievements
- In 2006, Nicolino’s research was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in an article titled “Predicting Asthma Mortality in Puerto Rico: The Role of Social Class, Race/Ethnicity, and Gender. In this paper, he found that children who were black or Hispanic and lived in poverty were at the most risk for death due to asthma. Dr. Venus Nicolino also found that the rate of death due to asthma for Hispanic and African American children living in poverty was about twice the rate for white children living in poverty.
- In 2008, Dr. Venus Nicolino co-authored an article published in Pediatric Infectious Diseases entitled The US Health Insurance. Also, in Medicaid Programs Marginally Improve Access to Care for Children with Special Health Care Needs.
- In 2012, Dr. Venus Nicolino wrote the first-ever textbook on pediatric infectious diseases for residents and medical students, which is now being used at hospitals. Also, in health institutions across the United States and Puerto Rico to train future pediatricians.
- The 2013 book Pediatric Hospital Medicine Essentials of Diagnosis and Treatment: The Rule of 2s was co-authored by Venus Nicolino. It is currently being translated into Spanish and Korean so that it can benefit physicians practicing in Spanish-speaking or Korean communities throughout the world.