She received her MD and PhD from the University of California, San Francisco where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honors Society. She then carried out her residency and fellowship training at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and served as Chief Medical Resident from 2010-2011. She joined the faculty of the Departments of Medicine (Divisions of Hematology and Bone marrow transplantation) and Genetics at Stanford University in 2014 after completing a post-doctoral fellowship focused on genomics at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Prof. Bhatt is a current Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator and has received multiple awards for her academic scholarship and global health leadership, including a Union for International Cancer Control-Young Leader Award and the Rosenkranz Prize for Global Health.