Aditi Nerurkar, M.D.

MD, MPH, Physician at Harvard Medical

Mental Health

Physicians & Other Providers

Wellness & Mental Health

Dr. Aditi Nerurkar, MD, MPH is Harvard physician, Forbes contributor & an NBC News medical commentator. Her expertise is in the science of stress, resilience and burnout. She offers insights in optimizing mental health, well-being and productivity during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.

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She is on faculty at Harvard Medical School in the Division of Global Health & Social Medicine and serves as the Co-Director of the Harvard Clinical Clerkship in Community Engagement. Prior, she worked in global public health in Geneva, Switzerland with a World Health Organization collaborating center.

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Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, CNN, NPR, and Oprah Magazine, as well as the Top Doctors issue of Boston Magazine. Her published research can be found in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

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Dr. Nerurkar is also a media and health contributor. She is a columnist for Forbes and can be seen on-air as a medical commentator for NBC News. Most recently, she was recognized by The Washington Post for her work amplifying the Covid-19 pandemic in India.

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She is an internationally-recognized speaker on stress, resilience, burnout and mental health with recent talks at the Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit, the Harvard Business School Women’s Conference, and the keynote speaker for Dell Technologies.

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Topics

Rewire Your Brain for Less Stress & More Resilience

Stress is the great equalizer, but resilience is the antidote. In this talk, Dr. Aditi Nerurkar educates and empowers her audience by offering an effective, practical and science-based approach to rewire the brain for less stress and more resilience. She outlines strategies such as a media diet, sleep as a therapeutic intervention, monotasking, and cognitive retraining as resets for better brain health, less stress and more resilience.

Re-Entry Phenomenon: Navigating Mental Health in the New Normal

70% of employees feel that the last few years have been the most difficult of their entire professional careers. Rates of anxiety, depression and insomnia are at unprecedented levels, along with prescription medications to treat these conditions. We’ve survived a public health crisis but it’s come a cost to our mental health. In this talk, Dr. Aditi Nerurkar offers a novel approach to navigate the post-pandemic era with insightful, practical and science-based strategies to protect mental health and foster productivity in the new normal.

Optimizing Mental Health & Productivity During Covid

70% of employees say that the pandemic has been the most difficult experience of their entire professional career. Rates of anxiety, depression and insomnia have risen, along with prescription medication usage to treat these conditions. While the pandemic is known to be a public health emergency, it is equally an occupational health crisis. In this talk, Dr. Aditi offers the latest state of the science on the mental health impact of Covid and offers insightful, practical and evidence-based strategies to boost mental health and productivity during this challenging time.

Why Stress Isn’t Talked About in the Doctor’s Office

While nearly 60-80% of primary care visits in the US are stress-related, only 3% of all primary care patients get stress management counseling. In this talk, Dr. Aditi offers insights on this missed opportunity and how we can build a stress-centered clinic using her experience as a former medical director of an integrative care program at a Harvard hospital.

Bringing Unconventional Therapies into Conventional Medical Care

More than 6 million Americans were prescribed mind-body therapies such as yoga or meditation by their doctor. In this talk, Dr. Aditi will highlight this fascinating emerging trend of conventional doctors prescribing unconventional therapies, how this has impacted physician life and patient health outcomes, and the future of unconventional therapies within conventional medical care in the US.

A Cure for Pandemic Fatigue: Optimizing Mental Health & Productivity During Covid-19

70% of employees feel that the pandemic has been the most difficult experience of their entire professional career. Rates of anxiety, depression and insomnia are on the rise, along with prescription medications to treat these conditions. While the pandemic is known to be a public health emergency, it is equally creating an occupational health crisis. In this talk, Dr. Aditi highlights the mental health impact of Covid-19 in the workplace, and offers insightful, practical and science-based strategies to boost mental health and productivity during this unprecedented time.

The Burnout Prescription: Optimizing the Mind, Body & Spirit

Burnout and resilience are commonly considered two ends of a spectrum, but that’s not scientifically true. Burnout is an external state influenced by systems, while resilience is an internal trait influenced by science. In this talk, Dr. Aditi Nerurkar dispels the myths of burnout, stress & resilience and offers a new framework to address the unique and urgent mental health challenges we’re facing in the new normal. She leads with real world data on the science of modern-day burnout and highlights key science-backed strategies to thrive during this challenging time.

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