Awards

• Plastic Surgery Education Foundation and Academy of Otolaryngology Poster. Motor Nerve Architecture and Peripheral Nerve Regeneration, 2007.

• Co-Investigator Award, First Prize. A paradigm Shift From Sensory to Motor Nerve Grafting to Improve Nerve Regeneration. Plastic Surgery Education Foundation Basic Science Essay Contest, 2007.

• American Society for Surgery of the Hand Research Grant ($9930) Determinants of Motor Neuron Pathway Specificity, 2003-2005.

Presentations

• Nichols CM, Kane AA. Periumblical Dermolipectomy: A Novel Technique for Abdominoplasty. Presented at: American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, Orlando, Florida, January 2008.

• Morazadeh A, Borschel GH, Nichols CM, Koob J, Hunter DA, Mackinnon SE. Impact of Sensory and Motor Nerve Architecture in Nerve Regeneration. Presented at: American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Washington DC, September 2007.

• Nichols CM, Kane AA. A Novel Technique in Abdominal Dermolipectomy. Presented at: Washington University Resident Research Symposium 2007.

• Moradzadeh A, Nichols CM, Koob J, Myckatyn TM, Tung T, Hunter DA, Mackinnon SE. The Role of Motor and Sensory Nerve Architecture in Regeneration through Cold Preserved Nerve Grafts. AAHS/ASRM/ASPN Annual Meeting, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico 2007.

• Nichols CM, Moradzadeh A, Hunter DA, Mackinnon SE. Effects of motor versus sensory nerve architecture on regeneration through cold preserved nerve grafts. Presented at: Washington University Resident Research Symposium 2006.

• Nichols CM, Brenner MJ, Fox IK, Tung TT, Hunter DA, Rickman SR, and Mackinnon SE. Effects of motor versus sensory nerve grafts on peripheral nerve regeneration. Presented at: Missouri Medical Society Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, 2006.

• Nichols CM, Luginbuhl RD, Brenner MJ, Rocque B, Hunter DA, and Mackinnon SE. Use of Modality Matched Autogenous Nerve Material in Peripheral Nerve Repair with Conduits. Presented at: AAHS/ASRM/ASPN Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ, 2006.

• Nichols CM. Current concepts and new horizons in the treatment of peripheral nerve injuries: CME course. Presented at: AAPA 33rdAnnual Conference, Orlando, FL, 2005.

• Nichols CM, Brenner MJ, Fox IK, Tung TT, Hunter DA, Rickman SR, and Mackinnon SE. Effects of modality matched nerve grafts on peripheral nerve regeneration. Presented at: AAHS/ASRM/ASPN Annual Meeting, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, 2005.

• Fox IK, Nichols CM, Brenner MJ, Hunter DA, Jaramillo A, Wood PM, Mohanakumar T, and Mackinnon SE. Schwann cell injected cold preserved nerve allografts for reconstruction of the long nerve gap: Preliminary results. Presented at: AAHS/ASRM/ASPN Annual Meeting, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, 2005.

• Snyder A, Fox IK, Nichols CM, Hunter DA, and Mackinnon SE. The Effect of FK506 Preload Treatment on Nerve Regeneration. Presented at: AAHS/ASRM/ASPN Annual Meeting, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, 2005.

• Nichols CM, Brenner MJ, Tung TT, Jensen JN, Hunter DA, Mackinnon SE. Anti-CD40 Ligand Monoclonal Antibody in Murine Nerve Allografts. Presented at: Saint Louis Surgical Society 2004.

• Nichols CM, Brenner MJ, Fox IK, Tung TT, Rickman SR, Hunter DA, Mackinnon SE. Effects of motor versus sensory nerve grafts on peripheral nerve regeneration. Presented at: Washington University Resident Research Symposium 2004.

• Friedman, J., Mooney, E., Lippitt, C., and Nichols CM. Reconstruction of excisional wounds of the nose with immediate cadaveric dermal scaffold undergrafting and full thickness autologous skin grafting. Presented at: Symposium of Advanced Wound Care, Las Vegas, NV, 2003.

• Nichols CM, Mooney EK. Reconstruction of Nasal Defects Using Dermal Undergrafting. Presented at: Upstate New York Plastic Surgery Society 2003.

• Nichols CM, Mooney EK. Repair of the Superficial Fascial System of the Lower Extremity. Presented at: Upstate New York Plastic Surgery Society 2002.

• Nichols CM, Balkwill, D. Expression of the traI Gene in Deep Subsurface Microorganisms. Presented: Florida State University Honors Undergraduate Thesis Defense Committee, FSU Department of Biology 1997.

Invited Reviews

• Nichols CM, Cheng CJ: An Update on the Evaluation of Wrist Pain. Missouri Medicine. 103(3) May/June 2006, pp 293-296.

Book Chapters

• Nichols CM, Tung, TH: Urethral Reconstruction Surgery. (Chapter 3). In: Urethral Reconstructive Surgery. Humana

• Press, Totowa NJ, In Brandes, SB (ed), 2008, pp 43-52.

Journal Publications

• Perlyn CA, Nichols CM, Woo A, Becker D, Kane AA. Le Premier Siècle: One Hundred Years of Progress in the Treatment of Apert Syndrome. J Craniofac Surg. 20(3): 801-6, May 2009.

• Sakiyama-Elbert SE, McKee A, Ahmad S, Soman NR, Lowe JB, Brenner MJ, Fox IK, Nichols CM, Myckatyn TM, Hunter

• DA, Tung TH, Mackinnon SE. Effect of Sciatic Nerve Injury on Gene Expression in Ventral Horn, Dorsal Root Ganglia and Sciatic Nerve. Muscle and Nerve. In review.

• Moradzadeh A, Borschel GH, Nichols CM, Koob J, Hunter DA, Mackinnon SE. Motor nerve architecture and peripheral nerve regeneration. Otolaryngology-Head and neck Surg. 137(2) S1: 213, 2007.

• Hess JR, Brenner MJ, Fox IK, Nichols CM, Myckatyn TM, Hunter DA, Rickman SR, Mackinnon SE. Use of cold-preserved allografts seeded with autologous Schwann cells in the treatment of a long-gap peripheral nerve injury. Plast Reconstr Surg. 119(1):246-59, 2007.

• Snyder A, Fox IK, Nichols CM, Hunter DA, Rickman SR, Mackinnon SE. The neuroregenerative effects of pre- injury

• FK-506 administration. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 118(2), August 2006, pp 360-367.

• Nichols CM, Myckatyn TM, Fox IK, Rickman SR, Mackinnon SE: Choosing the correct functional assay: A comprehensive assessment of functional tests in the rat. Behavioral and Brain Research. 163(2):143-58, 2005.

• Nichols CM, Brenner MJ, Fox IK, Tung TH, Hunter DA, Rickman SR, Mackinnon SE: Effect of motor versus sensory nerve grafts on peripheral nerve regeneration. Experimental Neurology, 190, 347-355, 2004.