Research Fellow in Medicine

Dr. Nerurkar received her B.A. in Sociology from Barnard College of Columbia University. Prior to clinical medicine, she worked in global health. She received her MPH from Columbia University's School of Public Health and worked in Geneva at a WHO collaborating center on HIV policy in sub-Saharan Africa. She completed her Internal Medicine residency at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey's Cooper Hospital (UMDNJ). She was the Director of Student Health at UMDNJ Cooper Hospital, where she maintained a primary care practice. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's course in Mindfulness Meditation for Health Care Providers. Her research interest is in mind-body therapies and lifestyle-related chronic disease. She teaches at Harvard Medical School and practices Integrative Medicine at The Brigham & Women's Hospital Osher Clinical Center.