Nicholas J Helmstetter, MD, FAAP, FACP, FHM

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 MedPeds four-year residency training program at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor before joining the Med-Peds faculty at WMed. In his clinic and educational duties, he precepts internal medicine and pediatric resident clinic at the WMed Health Oakland Drive Campus. He also rounds on hospitalized adults at both Beacon Kalamazoo 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. He is Addiction Medicine board eligible via the American Board of Preventative Medicine’s practice pathway, which closed in 2025. Educationally, he’s involved in both undergraduate and graduate medical education and provides lectures on topics in his areas of expertise and interest including: cognitive bias, street medicine, substance use disorders, harm reduction, social determinants of health/health equity as well as general internal medicine and pediatrics topics. He runs the medical school’s addiction medicine fourth year medical student elective. He was a past course director for the medical school’s “transitions to residency” fourth year elective. His current curriculum development is focused on substance use disorder standardized patient observed structured clinical exam cases for student doctors and resident physicians. He’s served on a variety of committees for the medical school and local hospitals. His research interests stem from his clinical experiences and he has been
PI and Co-PI on a number of past and current projects. He enjoys fostering research interest in his medical student and resident physician mentees. He’s been PI, Co-PI or a sub-recipient on a number of local, regional, state and national resource or research grants through his work with Street Medicine Kalamazoo and Michigan Collaborative Addiction Resources & Education System
(MICARES). His research programs’ work has been published and/or presented at local, regional, state, national and international conferences. He’s been an invited speaker/lecturer at local, regional, and state scientific meetings and conferences. His team’s work with street medicine at the intersection of substance use disorders and people experiencing homelessness was featured on the front page/A1 of the November 14, 2023 edition of the New York Times newspaper: “Millions Abuse Multiple Drugs, Complicating Addiction Crisis” by Jan Hoffman.