Undergraduate School

B.S., Biochemistry and Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne IL 2005

Medical School

M.D., Rush Medical College, Chicago IL 2010

Other School

M.S., Anatomy and Cell Biology, The Graduate College of Rush University Medical Center, Chicago IL 2009

Internship

GME, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh PA 2011

Residency

Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh PA 2010-2015

Residency

Clinical Faculty in Orthopaedic Surgery, Pittsburgh VA Healthcare System, Pittsburgh PA 2015-2016

Fellowship

Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago IL 2016-2017

Administrative Chief Resident, 2015-2016,

AMA Resident Scholarship, 2015,

Nominated Attendee, AOA Resident Leadership Forum, 2014,

Best Research Presentation, Resident Research Day, 2012,

Anthony Schmidt Prize in Anatomical Sciences, 2010,

McKeithan LJ, McClincy MP, Friel NA. Operative Treatment of Pediatric ACL tear, Iliotibial Band Reconstruction. Operative Techniques in Orthopaedics, 14:101115. 2024.

Parikh SN, Schlecter JA, Veerkamp MW, Stacey JD, Gupta R, Pendleton AM, Shea KG, Friel NA, Moloney JT, Yaniv M, Rhodes J, Finlayson CJ, Williams BA, Ellington M, PRISM Patellofemoral Instability RIG Study Group. Consensus-Based Guidelines for Management of First-Time Patellar Dislocation in Adolescents. J Pediatr. Orthop., 44(4): e369-e374. 2024.

Bachman DR, Phillips D, Veerkamp MW, Chipman DE, Wall EJ, Ellington MD, Friel NA, Schlecter JA, Green DW, Masquijo J, Parikh S. Growth in Skeletally Immature Patients With Patellar Instability and Genu Valgum. Am J Sports Med, 52(3): 698-704. 2024.

VandenBerg CD, Sarkisova N, Pace JL, Rhodes J, Hidalgo Perea S, PRiSM Patellofemoral Instability RIG Study Group, Green DW. Current practice trends in the surgical management of patellofemoral instability: a survey of the Paediatric Research in Sports Medicine (PRiSM) Society. Journal of Children's Orthopaedics, 15(6): 571-576. 2021.

Beck EC, Kunze KN, Friel NA, Heal WH, Fu MC, Giordano BD, Chahla J, Nho SJ. Is there a correlation between outcomes after hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement syndrome and patient cortical bone thickness? J Hip Preserv Surg, 6(1036): 16-24. 2019.

Lauren Agatstein, MA, Alton W. Skaggs, BS, Matthew J. Brown, MD, Nicole Friel, MD, Brian Haus, MD. Meniscus Repair Versus Debridement for Meniscal Tears in Pediatric Patients – Predictors for Treatment Based on Demographics. Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine. Volume 7, Issue 3_suppl. March 29, 2019. 

Basques, B. A., Waterman, B. R., Ukwuani, G., Beck, E. C., Neal, W. H., Friel, N. A., ... & Nho, S. J. Preoperative symptom duration is associated with outcomes after hip arthroscopy. The American journal of sports medicine, 47(1), 131-137 (2019). 

Pascual-Garrido,C, Southworth,TM., Slabaugh, MA., Naveen, NB., Friel, NA, Nwachukwu, BU., & Cole, BJ. Osteochondritis Dissecans (2019). 

Beck, Edward C., Kyle N. Kunze, Nicole A. Friel, William H. Neal, Michael C. Fu, Brian D. Giordano, Jorge Chahla, and Shane J. Nho. "Is there a correlation between outcomes after hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement syndrome and patient cortical bone thickness?" Journal of hip preservation surgery 6, no. 1 (2019): 16-24.

Friel NA, Ukwuani G, Nho SJ. Current Techniques in Treating Femoroacetabular Impingement: Capsular Repair and Plication. Am J Orthop. 2017 January;46(1):49-54.