Dr. Aparna Bapat is on the staff of the New York Ayurvedic Center in New York City and is the Ayurveda Program Director at the Starseed Center for Yoga and Wellness in Montclair, New Jersey as well as Principal Instructor at Starseed's New Jersey Institute of Ayurveda, and instructs trainee practitioners in ayurvedic nutrition and food theory, physical diagnosis and assessment, materia medica, pathology and other applied and clinical disciplines.

She is an experienced Ayurvedic physician who graduated from the renowned Pune University Faculty of Ayurvedic Medicine & Surgery in India. During her years of practice, she has worked in Bombay and Pune gathering expertise in Ayurvedic pulse diagnosis (Nadipariksha), phytotherapy and pancha-karma therapy, and has traveled, pacticed and taught in many European countries including Belgium, Holland, Austria, England and Germany giving lectures, workshops and consultations on Ayurveda and its practical values.

Dr. Bapat was a senior lecturer at the College of Ayurveda in London and is now a visiting lecturer at Ayurvedic facilities in London, Brussels, Seattle, Ottawa and Montclair (New Jersey, USA).

She has treated thousands of patients suffering from digestive, liver and pancreatic problems, cardiovascular disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome, AIDS, and many other chronic physical debilities and psychogenic diseases. She is a writer/contributor to the health columns of India Weekly and numerous professional medical publications in Europe and the United States, and has been on television and radio health programs as an Ayurveda authority in the United Kingdom's Zee-TV.

Dr. Bapat presently consults with patients in the United States in New York City and northern New Jersey as well as Florida.