Bella Mehta

Hospital for Special Surgery

Dr. Bella Mehta is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology at Hospital for Special Surgery and Weill Cornell Medicine. She is originally from Mumbai, India where she graduated from medical school. She completed her Internal Medicine Training at New York Medical College followed by a rheumatology fellowship at Hospital for Special Surgery where she stayed on as a faculty. She has also completed a Master’s in Patient Oriented Research at Mailman School of Public health at Columbia University and has advanced skills in clinical research methods. She specializes in the care of patients with various rheumatic conditions and has a particular clinical interest in adult-onset Still's disease. She has an expertise in health service research with a focus on decreasing health care disparities in patients with rheumatic diseases and improving outcomes in patients with osteoarthritis. Dr. Mehta leads studies to identify and build creative approaches using artificial intelligence, and advanced technologies such as large language models to improve diagnoses and patient outcomes.