Dr. Luche is a Clinician-Researcher Fellow in General Internal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, with a clinical practice based at UPMC Presbyterian-Montefiore. She is interested in a mixed clinical and research career, with a research focus in health equity and social determinants of health and a clinical focus in academic hospital medicine and primary care medicine. She received her MD from Weill Cornell Medicine in 2020 and completed her Internal Medicine Residency at UPMC in 2023.
Education & Training
- BA, Neuroscience & Behavior, German Studies, Vassar College, 2015
- MD, Weill Cornell Medicine, 2020
- Internal Medicine Residency, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 2023
Representative Publications
Luche N, Francois D. Clozapine-induced enuresis: An underrecognized and undertreated problem. Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders. 2020: 22(3):19102530.
Gofshteyn J. Yeshokumar A, Jette N, Thakur K, Luche N, Yozawitz E, Varnado S, Klenofsky B, Tuohy MC, Ankam J, Torres S, Hesdorffer D, Nelson A, Wolf S, McGoldrick P, Yan H, Basma N, Grinspan J. Clinical and electrographic features of persistent seizures and status epilepticus associated with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis (anti-NMDARE). Epileptic Disord. 2020; 22(6):739-51.
Torres SD, Kim CY, Das M, Ankam JV, Luche N, Harmon M, Schorr EM, Glassberg B, Morse SS, Weiss D, Gofshteyn JS, Yeshokumar AK, Thakur KT. Delays in diagnosis and treatment of bacterial meningitis in NYC: Retrospective cohort analysis. The Neurohospitalist. 2022; 12(2):268-272.
Research Interests
- Social determinants of health
- Health equity
- Chronic disease management