He earned his medical degree at Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany. He did his residency and fellowship in Orthopedic Surgery at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and was appointed Chief Resident in 2004. He then did an internship at Sigvard T. Hansen Foot and Ankle Institute in Washington. Later, he served as a fellow and Clinical Instructor of Orthopedic Trauma at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and a fellow and Staff Surgeon at the Orthopedic Foot and Ankle at the O.L. Miller Foot and Ankle Institute in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dr. Nickisch has published 35 peer reviewed articles in scientific journals. He brings a wealth of clinical experience and state of the art surgical techniques in Orthopedic Trauma and foot and ankle surgery.