Nadaa Basharat Ali MD, MSEd

Dr. Nadaa Ali received her Bachelor of Science degree in Neuroscience and History from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and her medical degree from Tulane University’s School of Medicine. Dr. Ali completed her residency in internal medicine and primary care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. She was awarded the Karen Kaufman Memorial Book Award for compassionate care and teamwork in primary care. During residency, her research focused on using real patients as volunteers in medical education and identifying health care disparities for Muslim patients.

Dr. Ali completed her fellowship in Medical Education at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has a master’s degree in education from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. Dr. Ali was recruited to the Division of Medical Communications and the Division of General Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2015. Dr. Ali is currently the Director of the Integrated Teaching Unit and Harvard Medical School’s Foundational Continuity Clinic at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She also practices primary care at the Phyllis Jen Center for Primary Care. In April 2018, Dr. Ali will be joining Atrius Health as a primary care physician.

Dr. Ali’s primary teaching interests focus on an innovative program to improve communication skills using volunteer patients, fine arts to facilitate team building in medicine, and a faculty development program to educate clinicians on providing culturally and religiously competent care to Muslim patients in the United States. Dr. Ali has taught in the Humanistic Curriculum for Brigham and Women’s Internal Medicine Residency program.