Pria Anand, MD

Pria Anand, MD, is a board-certified neurologist specializing in neuroinfectious diseases at Boston Medical Center (BMC), where she serves as Chief of the Division of Hospitalist Neurology and directs the Neurology Residency Program, and an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.

Dr. Anand holds an undergraduate degree in cognitive science from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and earned her medical degree, with a concentration in biomedical ethics and medical humanities, from Stanford University School of Medicine in California. She completed her neurology residency at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, where she received the Thomas J. Preziosi Award for Clinical Excellence in Neurology and the Frank L. Coulson, Jr., Award for Clinical Excellence for “a level of mastery in interpersonal skills, humanism, diagnostic acumen, knowledge, and a scholarly approach to clinical practice.” She subsequently completed the Advanced General Neurology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital with a focus on neuroinfectious diseases, neuroimmunology, and neurologic manifestations of systemic diseases.

At BMC, Dr. Anand cares for hospitalized patients with acute neurological disorders and patients with neurological complications of infectious diseases, such as HIV, neurocysticercosis, meningitis, and encephalitis.

Dr. Anand’s academic work primarily focuses on neuroinfectious diseases and neurologic health equity. She also has a longstanding interest in narrative medicine, and has written for the New York Review of Books, Boston Globe, Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Time, and Ploughshares. Her book The Mind Electric was named a Best Book of 2025 by Publishers Weekly, Barnes & Noble, The Observer, The Globe and Mail, Book Riot, and others, and won the 2026 PEN America E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.