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Nadine Palermo, DO
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Dr. Nadine Palermo is the Associate Director of Acute Diabetes Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. She attended the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Pennsylvania and completed her Internal Medicine Residency and Chief Residency at Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Following her Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Fellowship at Boston University Medical Center, she joined the faculty at Brigham and Women’s Hospital as an Associate Physician and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is also a consulting physician in endocrinology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. In addition to directing the inpatient diabetes service, she has an outpatient practice in general endocrinology, endocrinology and pregnancy in collaboration with maternal fetal medicine and is part of the Brigham and Women’s Transitions Program in collaboration with Boston Children’s Hospital with focus on patients with cystic fibrosis related diabetes. Her clinical and research interests include management of acute diabetes and interdisciplinary systems improvement, specifically focused on transition of care, barriers to diabetes care and health literacy for patients with diabetes. She is also very invested in clinician education and has developed several tools for inpatient diabetes management as serves as core clinical faculty for the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Endocrinology Fellowship Program.