Nahata Lab Staff
Leena Nahata, MD
Principal Investigator
Leena Nahata, MD, is a board-certified pediatric endocrinologist, Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and founder and medical director of the Fertility and Reproductive Health Program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. As an NIH-funded Principal Investigator in the Center for Biobehavioral Health at the Abigail Wexner Research Institute, she is leading and collaborating on several clinical research studies focused on improving reproductive and psychosocial outcomes in pediatric populations at risk for infertility.
Tanvi Karkare
Clinical Research Coordinator I
Tanvi Karkare is a clinical research coordinator I working with Dr. Nahata in the Center for Biobehavioral Health. She graduated from Michigan State University in 2024 with a degree in cognitive and computational neuroscience. As an undergraduate student, Tanvi worked as a research assistant for the Prenatal Stress Study and the Visual Neuroscience Lab, a mentor in the YOUR(in)CHARJ research fellowship, and worked as an undergraduate junior counselor in Confident Kids Camp for children with selective mutism in the summer. Her research interests include closing gaps in healthcare inequities, specifically in the realm of developmental psychobiology. Tanvi's long-term goal is to pursue a doctorate in clinical psychology, with a focus in mental healthcare and treatment inequities for under-resourced children.
Monica Stanwick
Clinical Research Coordinator II
Monica Stanwick is a Clinical Research Coordinator II working with Dr. Nahata in the Center for Biobehavioral Health. She graduated from The Ohio State University in 2025 with her master of public health in health behavior and health promotion; she also holds a master of arts in teaching from Mercer University and a bachelor of sciences in biology from Marshall University. Monica has a diverse research background, having previously worked as graduate student researcher in an LGBTQ+ health equity lab and as a lab manager in a basic science dental biology lab. Her research interests include prevention of eating disorders and weight stigma, impacts of social media on body size perception and promotion of weight-neutral policies and practices in health care and in broader society.