Dr. Benjamin Nichols, MD, is a Board-Certified Dermatologist.  He was born in Seattle, Washington and moved to California at a young age.  He attended UC Berkeley for his undergraduate education and the University of Southern California for medical school.  He continued  his training at the affiliated hospitals of the University of Southern California, which include, Los Angeles County-University of Southern California (LAC-USC) General Hospital, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Women’s and Children’s Hospital and the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA).  He returned to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2010 with his wife who grew up in the area.  She is a local physician specializing in Otolaryngology (Ear, Nose and Throat).  His father is a Professor at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, his mother his a retired nurse of over 50 years, his brother is a pediatric psychiatrist and he has several other physicians in the family.