MD, MSPH

Dr. Nyquist serves as the Chief Epidemiology Officer at Children’s Hospital Colorado. She is a Professor of Pediatrics in the section of Infectious Disease and Epidemiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine with a secondary appointment at the Colorado School of Public Health section of Community and Behavioral Health.

Directly from high school she was admitted to the prestigious Integrated Premedical-Medical Program (Inteflex) six-year combined BS/MD program which admitted 50 students per year at the University of Michigan. After graduation from the University of Michigan School of Medicine, completed her pediatric residency and chief residency at UCLA Medical Center and her Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship and Masters of Science in Public Health at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.

From 2009 to 2015, she was the inaugural Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in addition to serving in multiple national leadership roles within the Association of American Medical Colleges Diversity and Inclusion programs. She is Fellow in the 2010-2011 Class of the Hedwig von Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM) Program for Women.

She is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS) and a member of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA). She has served on national leadership roles on the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases, Infectious Diseases of America Leadership Development Committee, and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology (SHEA). She has been an invited expert for CDC, ACIP, HHS, USNWR, and National Academies of Sciences working groups. Her bibliography includes over 180 peer reviewed, published articles, book chapters, and other scholarly works.

Her infectious disease clinical practice is based at Children’s Hospital Colorado and her research interests include healthcare epidemiology and infection control, quality and safety, health equity and pediatric infectious diseases.