Nathan Bertelsen, MD, MScPH

Dr. Bertelsen graduated from medical school at the University of Minnesota in 2007 and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine (primary care track) at Weill Cornell Medical Center / New York Presbyterian Hospital in 2010, where he also served as an Ambulatory Chief Resident. He has a B.A. in government / international relations from Georgetown University, a Postgraduate Certificate in Global Mental Health from Harvard University, and a Masters of Science in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (MScPH). He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, where he works as a hospitalist.

Before coming to Minnesota, he served on the faculty in the Departments of Medicine and the Population Health at New York University School of Medicine, with a secondary appointment at New York University College of Global Public Health, and he worked as a hospitalist, primary care physician, and clerkship director at Bellevue Hospital. During this time, he served as Director of Primary Care for the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture in New York; founding director of the clinical skills curriculum at Koc University School of Medicine in Istanbul, Turkey; Adviser for Research and Training for Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Istanbul mission;. MPH course director in refugee health at the NYU campus in Florence, Italy; migrant health education coordinator at the Institute for Global Health in Barcelona, Spain; director of education for the International Panel Physicians Association; and served on the Board of Directors of the Central American Healthcare Initiative (CAHI) at INCAE Business School in Costa Rica.

At the University of Minnesota, he is co-director of Becoming a Doctor, and co-director of Social and Community Health, which are required courses for all medical students. In Global Medicine, he is the founding director of the Minnesota Asylum Collaborative, which offers pro bono medical evaluations for asylum seekers in partnership with the Phillips Neighborhood Clinic, Physicians for Human Rights and the Center for Victims of Torture.