Dr. Nalini Tata received her medical degree from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, where she was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha medical student honor society, with a concurrent Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Tata received her undergraduate degree in neurobiology from Brown University, then earned a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge in England before enrolling in medical school. As a student researcher with Dr. Rees Cosgrove at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, she helped study asleep DBS practices and outcomes. She has also written about ethics and philosophy of neurosurgical practice during and beyond the time of the Covid-19 pandemic with Dr. Nader Dahdaleh at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
