Robert Nickel, M.D.
Robert E. Nickel, M.D., directs the Regional Services Center of the Child Development and Rehabilitation Center (CDRC), which is a major unit of Oregon Health Sciences University. The CDRC administers Title V services for children with special health care needs in Oregon, offers a variety of clinical services, and houses a research and training institute – the Oregon Institute on Disability and Development, which is a University Affiliated Program (UAP). The Eugene office of the CDRC is associated with the Center on Human Development, the UAP at the University of Oregon. Dr. Nickel completed fellowship training in developmental pediatrics at the University of Washington with Drs. Forrest C. Bennett and Jerry Sells. During this fellowship, he also worked regularly with Dr. David Shurtleff and the Birth Defects Clinic staff at Children's Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle. Since completing his fellowship in 1980, Dr. Nickel has worked as a developmental pediatrician for the CDRC. In addition, he has directed the Eugene office since 1990. He represents the CDRC on the State Interagency Coordinating Council for Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education in Oregon and is a past chair of the Committee on Children with Disabilities of the Oregon Pediatric Society. He is a past president and a current curriculum committee member of the Northwest Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. Dr. Nickel has written and lectured widely on the early identification of children with disabilities in the primary care office. He collaborated with Diane Bricker and Jane Squires in the development of Ages & Stages Questionnaires®: A Parent-Completed, Child-Monitoring System (Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 1999) and developed the Infant Motor Screen. In addition, he has presented numerous workshops on caring for children with disabilities and chronic conditions in the primary care office and on improving the collaboration of health professionals with education staff and other community service providers.