Gloria Y. Yeh, MD, MPH

Director, HMS Research Fellowship in Integrative Medicine

Gloria Y. Yeh, MD, MPH

Director, HMS Research Fellowship in Integrative Medicine

Research Concentrations

  • Complementary and Integrative Medicine
  • Mind-Body Therapies
  • Complex Chronic Disease

Professional Biography

Dr. Yeh is a clinician investigator within the Division of General Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center where she leads a program in mind-body research. She also serves as the Director of Clinical Research at the Harvard Medical School Osher Center for Integrative Health. She is an internationally recognized leader in the field of integrative health, with a primary research focus on efficacy and mechanism of mind-body and behavioral lifestyle interventions, including movement-based mind-body therapies such as tai chi and yoga, in complex chronic illness.  She is principal or co-investigator on dozens of NIH-funded studies investigating mind-body interventions, including six R01s in patients with chronic cardiopulmonary disease. She has expertise in clinical trial methodology of mind-body studies, multi-modal behavioral intervention development and adaptation for complex chronic disease, and has investigated both patient-centered (psychosocial, behavioral) and physiological outcomes in a wide range of patient populations. She has a long-standing commitment and passion to training the next generation, having mentored over 40 pre- and post-doctoral fellows and is the Program Director of the HMS T32 Research Fellowship in Integrative Medicine.  Nationally, she serves as the Vice Chair for the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health.