Nicole Veltri completed her undergraduate nursing degree at Southern Connecticut State University in 2009. She began her nursing career at Yale New Haven Hospital and then went on to travel nursing across the country. In 2012, Nicole relocated to Arlington, Virginia where she worked in the Neurosurgical ICU and attended graduate school. She graduated with her Adult Geriatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner degree from The George Washington University in 2015. Upon graduation Nicole remained interested in the field of neurology, specifically stroke, which lead to her joining the stroke service.