Nicholas J Helmstetter, MD, FAAP, FACP, FHM

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  • Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
    • Primary Address
    • Clinic
    • Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine
    • Medicine-Pediatrics Clinic
    • 1000 Oakland Drive
    • Kalamazoo, MI, United States 49008

Biography

Biography

Nic Helmstetter, MD, FAAP, FACP, FHM, is a dual-boarded Pediatrician and Internist (Med-Peds). He is a graduate of Kalamazoo College. He earned his medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit. He completed his combined Med-Peds four-year residency training program at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor before joining the Med-Peds faculty at WMed. His clinical interests include office and hospital-based procedures with ultrasound guidance, Nexplanon placement, treatment of substance use disorders, caring for adolescents and young adults with special healthcare needs, and prescribing PrEP. He completed LGBTQ+ competency training via outcarehealth.org and is an OutCare member. He rounds on hospitalized adults at both Ascension Borgess and Bronson Methodist hospitals with his WMed resident physician teams. He’s been practicing street medicine as an associate director of WMed Street Medicine Kalamazoo since 2021. Overall, he enjoys caring for patients from newborns to the golden years, as well as teaching and mentoring student doctors and resident physicians.

Education

  • Residency 2018, Internal Medicine-Pediatrics, Medical School, University of Michigan
  • MD 2014, School of Medicine, Wayne State University
  • MD 2014, School of Medicine, Wayne State University
  • BA 2010, Biology, Kalamazoo College
  • BA 2010, Biology, Kalamazoo College

Board/Specialty

  • American Board of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics)
  • American Board of Internal Medicine (Internal Medicine)

In the Media

  • The Twin. Hosp Pediatr. 2018;8(3):176-177. doi:10.1542/hpeds.2017-0210. 08/2018.