Nicholas J. Schmidt Jr., M.D.
Board-Certified Physician in Internal Medicine
Nicholas J. Schmidt Jr., M.D., is a board-certified physician in internal medicine, oncology, and hematology with Charleston Oncology. He graduated from the University of South Carolina Honors College M.D. with a B.S. in biology, followed by the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. Dr. Schmidt completed his residency in Internal Medicine and his fellowship in hematology and oncology at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
He is an active member of the USC SOM Saunders Humanism Honor Society, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the American Society of Hematology. Dr. Schmidt has been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals. While in fellowship training, Dr. Schmidt was the first author of a chapter in “Targeting Oncogenic Drivers and Signaling Pathways in Lymphoid Malignancies, Volume 1”, a textbook on lymphoma. He also contributed to abstracts accepted for poster presentations at both the ASCO QI Symposium and the Pan Pacific Lymphoma Conference.
Before joining Charleston Oncology, a department of Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital, as a private practitioner, Dr. Schmidt was a Hematology and Oncology Hospitalist at the University of Virginia. A native of Summerville, SC, Dr. Schmidt resides in Mount Pleasant with his wife and three children.
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