Nicole Fortier O'Brien

Nicole Fortier O’Brien was born in rural Ohio. She completed undergraduate education at Ohio Northern University in 1997, and after spending a gap year working in a refugee camp in West Africa decided to attend medical school. After graduating in 2002, she trained in internal medicine/pediatrics and critical care medicine at UC San Diego. In addition to her medical career, she serves as executive director of Restore Elikia, a non-profit organizing in the DRC. She and her husband, Will, live in Central Ohio, where they are raising four amazing children.