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Nicholas Phillips, MD, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty

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Nicholas Phillips, MD, PhD

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences

MS 740

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis,  TN 38105-3678

(901) 595-6092(phone)

(901) 595-5845(fax)

Affiliations

Department of Psychology and Biobehavioral Sciences

Comprehensive Cancer Center

Cancer Control and Survivorship Program

Education

BA – Maryville College; Maryville, TN MD – University of Tennessee, Health Science Center; Memphis, TN  PhD – University of Tennessee and the University of Memphis; Memphis, TN  Child Neurology Residency – University of Tennessee, Health Science Center; Memphis, TN   Cancer Survivorship Fellowship – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; Memphis, TN Research Fellowship, Neuroscience – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; Memphis, TN 

Honors & Awards

  • 2025 - Moore Award for Best Paper on Clinico-Pathological Correlation Presented at the Annual American Association of Neuropathologists Meeting
  • 2018 – International Cognition and Cancer Task Force Young Investigator Award
  • 2009 - American Academy of Neurology, Medical Student Prize in Neurology
  • 2009 - UTHSC Outstanding Student Award in Neurology Clerkship
  • 2004 - American Heart Association Health Science Fellowship in Vascular Biology
  • 2004 - UTHSC RICE Intercollegiate Bowl First Place Team
  • 2003 - Winner of Best Paper, Southeastern Neuroradiology Society Meeting 
  • 2000 - LeQuire Award for Excellence, Maryville College
  • 1999 - Alpha Sigma Lambda inductee
  • 1998 - Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship
  • 1998 - All-Tennessee Academic Team Award, Phi Theta Kappa

Research Interests

  • Development of pathophysiological models of neurocognitive late effects related to disease and treatment in survivors of childhood cancers
  • Investigation of interventions to improve neurologic and neurocognitive outcomes in childhood cancer survivors
  • Functional and structural neuroimaging

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