Nivedita Lakhera
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Nivedita Lakhera

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Dr. Nivedita Lakhera is a physician with 16 years of clinical and academic experience, she was nominated for Pulitzer-, and the for The Max Cranbrook Global Peacemaker Award. Her first book, Pillow of Dreams, is an award-winning poetry and art book and remains the best-reviewed poetry book amongst almost 100,000 poetry books on Amazon. At the age of 27, during the second year of her Internal Medicine Residency, Dr. Nivedita Lakhera suffered a massive stroke followed by a traumatic divorce. Despite the setbacks, she did not let herself be defined by these events. She picked herself up and turned to study lifestyle medicine, neuroscience, nutrition, literature, and art to heal herself and others. From her personal experience, Lakhera learned that tragedies such as hers can strike anyone at any stage in life. In the end, she came to realize how we can thrive through such tragedies. Lakhera’s second and third book, "I am not a Princess, I am a Complete Fairytale" and "The Life Currency," is included in the Peace and Justice syllabi of Wayne State University and Michigan State University. "The Life Currency" was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Her upcoming fourth book, Building Better Brain- Building Better Life- is about using neuroscience, neuroplasticity, nutrition, and lifestyle medicine to build a better life in all fronts. Lakhera has been interviewed on NPR, NBC, and USA Today. An op-ed she wrote for USA Today on mental health is one of its all-time top seven editorials and she has been cited by the publication as one of the leaders of change. She is also a strong advocate for the white coats for the black lives matter movement and has spoken out on the issue of health care disparities amongst minorities. Over the years, Lakhera has also been invited to keynote events, corporate talks, and universities where she discusses philosophy, art, poetry, neuroscience, nutrition, and lifestyle medicine as a way to heal and grow. She is currently practicing as an inpatient physician/ hospital-based physician at Washington Hospital in Fremont and Kaiser, Santa Rosa.
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