Assistant Professor, Director of Brain Injury Medicine
To see if Nicholas Race is accepting new patients, or for assistance finding a UC Davis doctor, please call 800-2-UCDAVIS (800-282-3284).
PM&R Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Clinic
4860 Y Street
Sacramento, CA 95817
Phone: 916-734-7041
UC Davis Medical Center
2315 Stockton Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95817
Phone: 800-2-UCDAVIS (800-282-3284)
My goal is to accompany you on your brain injury recovery journey. I am open to creative, outside-the-box thinking and unconventional solutions. We will work together to make post-injury life as fulfilling as possible and adapt to new issues as they arise, using tools including rehabilitation, neuropsychology, medications, procedures, devices, and modified strategies to tackle life's many challenges. Maximizing your overall function and quality of life is my top priority.
Dr. Race is a PM&R physician specializing in brain injury medicine. He has a special clinical interest and expertise in traumatic and anoxic brain injuries, as well as advanced techniques for interventional spasticity and dystonia management. He practices across the continuum of care, following patients from the start of their ICU journey through neurorehabilitation, outpatient care, and community reintegration.
Dr. Race's research focuses on developing tools to predict outcomes and responses to interventions, particularly medications, following acquired brain injuries. He is especially interested in approaches to precision neuropharmacology following traumatic or anoxic brain injuries. He also has interest in psychosocial and behavior disturbances after brain injuries and advanced spasticity/dystonia management techniques.
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
B.S., Biomedical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute IN 2011
M.D., Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis IN 2019
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, Wast Lafayette IN 2017
Henry Ford Health System, Detroit MI 2019-2020
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 2020-2023
Brain Injury Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh PA 2023-2024
Richard S. Materson New Investigator Award, Foundation for PM&R, 2023,
Overall Excellence in Residency Award, UPMC Dept. of PM&R, 2023,
Indiana Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Fund Early Commercialization Award, Indiana CTSI, 2021,
Ralph M. Buschbacher Outstanding Graduate in PM&R, IU School of Medicine, 2019,
Samuel F. Hulbert Outstanding Graduate in Biomedical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 2011,
Access Nicholas Race's NIH publications here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/nicholas.race.2/bibliography/public/
Access Nicholas Race's Google Scholar publications here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=peW-iEIAAAAJ&hl=en