Edith Evelyn Nicholls Stainsby (September 29, 1892[1] – March 12, 1978) was an American physician and medical researcher.

Her father was born in England and owned the Nicholls Tubing Factory.

[1][2] She graduated from Smith College in 1919,[3] and earned degrees in public health and child psychology at Johns Hopkins University.

[8] She was on the staff of the Children's Bureau in Washington, D.C. She lived in China as a young woman, and spoke about her experiences there to women's groups afterward.

[28] Nicholls married fellow physician Wendell J. Stainsby in 1928, in Toronto.