Dr. Nehal is a physician executive and digital health entrepreneur with experience spanning healthcare delivery, policy, and technology. She is board certified in Clinical Informatics, serves as adjunct faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is the founder of HER Heard, an MIT-incubated women's digital health venture.

Dr. Nehal has held senior leadership roles in large health systems and public programs, including Chief Medical Officer for a 14-center $100 million agency in New York City. As a medical director in the Massachusetts Medicaid agency, MassHealth, she served as clinical lead for $1.8 billion in delivery system transformation and value-based care reform. Her work has included advising state agencies, CMS, HHS, NIH, the White House, and international governments like the Netherlands and Saudi Arabia. She is published on medical AI and is lead editor on a book on systems thinking for physician leaders to be published in 2026.

Dr. Nehal has extensive experience in curriculum development and education, including national curricula for patient-centered medical homes, leadership programs for physicians, and global health training initiatives. She is a former co-chair of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s Advisory Panel on Healthcare Delivery and Disparities Research for >$300 million research budget. 

She received her medical degree from Aga Khan University Medical College, her MPH from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, her MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and is certified in mind-body medicine and as an executive coach.