Maheetha Bharadwaj, MD

Maheetha graduated with a Bachelors of Science with Honors in Biology and a Masters of Science in biomedical informatics from Stanford University. She went on to obtain a Masters of Philosophy in Genomic Medicine from the University of Cambridge. She went on to participate in the MD program in Harvard Medical School. Dr. Bharadwaj’s research interests include finding the intersection between genomics and equity research particularly in kidney and bladder cancers. She is exciting to be pursuing this in her research year this upcoming academic cycle. In her free time, she enjoys dancing, watching TV shows, and creating tiktoks! As a dancer, Maheetha has been learning Bharathanatyam, an ancient Indian Classical Dance Form, since the age of five. In college, she transitioned to dancing on competitive hip-hop dance teams. She also used her passion for dance in community service, working with a local grassroots organization to teach science through dance. In her gap year doing hematology oncology research at Memorial Sloan Kettering, she danced on Project D, placing at competitions like Elements and Defining Rhythm. In medical school, she continued intersecting dance and medicine for her capstone project, where-by she would choreograph a Bharathanatyam dance narrative depicting the journey of a patient diagnosed with cancer. Partnering with Indian Raga, this story is tited Resilience and has over 20000 views on YouTube. For her project with HCC, she would like to continue depicting complex medical narratives through dance.