Natalia E. Morone MD, MS
Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine
801 Massachusetts Ave | (617) 414-7399natalia.morone@bmc.org
moronen@bu.edu
Sections
General Internal Medicine
Biography
Natalia E. Morone, MD, MS received her BA at Barnard College, Columbia University, her MD at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, and her Master of Science in Clinical Research at University of Pittsburgh. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Boston University and is a clinical general internist at Boston Medical Center. She is author of over 60 peer-reviewed publications that focus on integrative approaches for chronic pain, mindfulness, chronic low back pain, integration of mindfulness into clinical practice, and retaining early career researchers in research. She is currently Principal Investigator of a UH3 award pragmatic clinical trial to evaluate telehealth delivered group mindfulness for chronic low back pain, multi-Principal Investigator of a 25-site randomized trial of a year-long professional development intervention to retain early career faculty in research, and Principal Investigator of a K24 midcareer development award to mentor early investigators in mind and body medicine and pain.
In addition to her research, she is PI and Director of the BU CTSI KL2 program and co-Directs the BU CTSI Career Development Award Writing Workshop. She is a member of the BU CTSI Workforce Development Group. She started an integrated acupuncture clinic within the Boston Medical Center General Internal Medicine Clinic. She serves as the Department of Medicine representative to the BU CAMed Committee on Faculty Affairs, an elected position.
Committed to mentoring, she mentors medical students, residents, fellows, post-docs, and junior faculty. Mentees have gone on to receive federal grant funding, have published their work in peer-reviewed journals and have presented their work both locally and nationally.
Education
Medicine, MD, Michigan State University
Publications
Sariahmed K, Gradus J, Edwards RR, Garcia R, Jin W, Morone NE, Rosellini A, Shiner B, LaRochelle M. The association of PTSD with burden of chronic overlapping pain conditions. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2026; 100:193-195. PMID: 41985380.
Published on 4/6/2026Thomas HN, Norman MK, Vempalli H, Hamm M, White GE, Morone NE, Murrell AJ, Rubio DM, Gauvin N. "Academia Is a Very Unforgiving Space": A Qualitative Study of Challenges Faced by Under-represented Scholars in Biomedical Research. J Gen Intern Med. 2026 Apr 06. PMID: 41942825.
Published on 3/25/2026Nunes LS, Incollingo Rodriguez AC, Nephew BC, Lopez RB, King JA, Gardiner PM, Morone NE. Psychosocial Moderators of Response to a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Trial for Chronic Low Back Pain: Considerations for Intervention Science and Development. Pain Med. 2026 Mar 25. PMID: 41883145.
Published on 2/6/2026Gauvin N, Thomas H, Vempalli H, White GE, Morone NE, Murrell AJ, Hamm ME, Rubio D, Norman MK. Erratum: Motivations to pursue careers in health research: A qualitative study of underrepresented faculty in the health sciences - CORRIGENDUM. J Clin Transl Sci. 2026; 10(1):e22. PMID: 41694064.
Published on 1/2/2026Roth IJ, Harr ED, Lathren CR, Barnhill JL, Rodriguez RD, Baez JE, Morone NE. A protocol for using rapid qualitative techniques to incorporate multi-level stakeholder feedback in a pragmatic clinical trial of mindfulness for chronic low back pain. PLoS One. 2026; 21(1):e0338304. PMID: 41481603.
Published on 12/9/2025Roseen EJ, Smith CN, Rahim A, Deal C, Fischer R, Morone NE, Flack A, Penza C, Suri P, Dougherty PE, Weiner DK, Schneider MJ. Which lumbar spinal stenosis patients will improve with nonsurgical treatment? A secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial. Chiropr Man Therap. 2025 Dec 09; 33(1):57. PMID: 41366694.
Published on 11/3/2025Gauvin N, Thomas H, Vempalli H, White GE, Morone NE, Murrell AJ, Hamm ME, Norman MK, Rubio D. Motivations to pursue careers in health research: A qualitative study of underrepresented faculty in the health sciences. J Clin Transl Sci. 2026; 10(1):e5. PMID: 41536820.
Published on 10/1/2025Miller VE, Barnhill J, Greco CM, Castro G, Nguyen TP, Gardiner P, Faurot KR, Gaylord S, Weinberg JM, Thomas HN, Sariahmed K, Morone NE. Prevalence of Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions in Participants With Chronic Low Back Pain Enrolled in a Pragmatic Trial of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Eur J Pain. 2025 Oct; 29(9):e70119. PMID: 40891220.
Published on 9/10/2025Rubio DM, White GE, Murrell AJ, Nielsen P, Morone NE. Building Up a Biomedical Research Workforce Trial. J Clin Transl Sci. 2025; 9(1):e216. PMID: 41111936.
Published on 9/1/2025Kawi J, Yeh CH, Lukkahatai N, Wu H, Morone NE, Glick R, Schlenk EA, Campbell C, Thrul J, Huang X, Wang H, Jia HM, Christo P, Johnson C. Auricular point acupressure for older adults with chronic low back pain: a randomized controlled trial. Pain Med. 2025 Sep 01; 26(9):515-526. PMID: 40152243.
Media Mentions
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