Grandson of W-burg Resident Graduates from Med School

Christopher M. Nicholas graduated from the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University in Philadelphia on May 6, 2022. He is the grandson of the late Dr. Marion A. Morelli and Ruth Morelli, RN of Williamsburg.

Christopher is a 2012 graduate of Penn-Trafford High School and a 2016 graduate of Penn State University. While at Penn State, he studied Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

He worked as a lab assistant for the Mito typing DNA Lab in State College while working on the weekends as an EMT for the Moshannon Valley Ambulance Service in Philipsburg. He worked an additional year as a lab technician for UPMC Presbyterian Hospital of Pittsburgh. He joined the United States Air Force in June of 2018 and received military medical training at Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio in July of 2019.

He is presently doing his medical residency for Family Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska. He is a Captain in the USAF and his residency is a hybrid program connected with the University of Nebraska and Offutt, AFB. Christopher is the son of Frederick and Marianne Nicholas of Penn Township, Westmoreland County and an Eagle Scout from Troop 239 of Claridge, PA.