Dr. Nico T. Conti, M.D.
Internal Medicine Physician, UCLA
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Clinical Instructor
Dr. Nico Conti, M.D., is a board certified internal medicine physician for UCLA in Los Angeles, California. He is a physician educator and works with medical students as well as residents as a clinical instructor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine in Los Angeles, California. He practices at several community hospitals in the downtown Los Angeles area.
Dr. Nico Conti received his medical degree from Central Michigan University College of Medicine, the school’s inaugural class. During his medical education, he was elected as one of two voting student representatives on their curriculum committee, helping shape their innovative curriculum. During medical school, he also researched potential therapeutic drug options for dengue virus infections. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Case Western Reserve University / University Hospitals and Louis Stokes’ VA Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. During residency, he was awarded the Resident Teaching Award in his final year for his lecture style and teaching on the wards. During residency, he also studied bacterial mechanisms of resistance to antibiotics resulting in clinical drug resistance. He received his undergraduate degree from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he researched persistent viral infections and created cell culture models of such infections.
The hospitals Dr. Conti practices at via the UCLA Hospitalist Downtown Cohort are: Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital, Barlow Respiratory Hospital, California Hospital Medical Center and Olive View UCLA Hospital.
Dr. Nico Conti also enjoys teaching medical students at the David Geffen School of Medicine (UCLA, Los Angeles, California), in addition to teaching residents on the wards. He also enjoys writing case reports, performing clinical research, and volunteering to serve the homeless at medical clinics in his community of Los Angeles.