Darshan Mehta, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in Medicine and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS). He is the Medical Director of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Medical and Education Director for the Osher Center for Integrative Health at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and HMS. His educational and research interests include curricular development in complementary and integrative medical therapies, mind-body educational interventions in health professions training, and promoting professionalism in medical trainees.  

Dr. Mehta received his BA in Biology from Illinois Wesleyan University and an MD from the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical School. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Illinois-Chicago Hospital. He completed a clinical research fellowship in complementary and integrative medicine at the Harvard Medical School Osher Research Center, during which he received a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health.  

He is board-certified in Integrative Medicine and has done professional training in mindfulness-based stress reduction at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.  From 2020 to 2025, Dr. Mehta was the inaugural director of the Office for Well-Being at MGH. He is on the board of directors for the Academic Consortium for Integrative Health and the editorial board for the Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine and Global Advances in Integrative Health and Medicine.  Dr. Mehta is active in the Massachusetts Medical Society and is a member of the American College of Physicians.