Piyush P. Nayyar, MD, MBA

Dr. Pete Nayyar is an internal medicine physician who practices at UCLA Health – Santa Monica Medical Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and California Rehabilitation Institute. He is board certified in internal medicine and passionate about the therapeutic relationship between practitioner and patient. He focuses on evidence-based, integrative medicine, with an emphasis on the broader concepts of health promotion, early diagnosis, and prevention of complications. He currently serves as Assistant Clinical Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and is also a member of the UCLA Joint Ethics Committee.

Dr. Nayyar received his medical degree from the State University of New York where he graduated Cum Laude and was awarded the prestigious Harold A. Lyons Award for Excellence in Clinical Medicine 2013, for the top graduating student in medicine. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center/UCLA VA in Los Angeles. He was awarded the Paul Rubenstein Award for Excellence in Resident Research across all specialties in 2016. His research in cardiovascular interventions, which won him the Paul Rubenstein Award, was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Dr. Nayyar recently earned his Master of Business Administration degree from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he was awarded the Merit Fellowship and the Net Impact Consulting Award. Additionally, Dr. Nayyar is pursuing a degree in integrative medicine and was the recipient of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine Fellowship Scholarship and the Training New Trainers Primary Care Psychiatry Fellowship Scholarship at the University of California. He completed his undergraduate degree in Economics from Cornell University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and published in "The Economic Naturalist."

Prior to joining UCLA Health in 2016, Dr. Nayyar worked at the Food and Drug Administration and as a physician for the City of Los Angeles and Los Angeles Police Department. He was also a consultant for PhytoMed, a New Zealand based herbal medicine company for naturopathic physicians.

Dr. Nayyar is a member of the American College of Physicians, California Medical Association, Phi Beta Kappa, Golden Key, Omnicron Delta Epsilon, and Tau Kappa Epsilon, among other organizations. He is an avid student of yoga and meditation, and in particular, Tibetan Buddhism. His interests include philosophy, mind-body medicine, psychology, functional medicine, psychotherapy (ISTDP) and Ayurveda. He also loves traveling, classic rock, diving and baseball.