Denise De Las Nueces, MD, MPH

Chief Medical Officer, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program

A board-certified internal medicine physician and addiction medicine specialist with a focus on vulnerable populations. Dr. De Las Nueces received her Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University and subsequently studied at Harvard Medical School, where she received an MD in 2008. She trained at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Internal Medicine Residency Program from 2008 to 2011. Upon completion of residency training, Dr. De Las Nueces was granted a Commonwealth Fund Mongan Fellowship in Minority Health Policy, completing a Master of Public Health degree in Health Policy from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2012. She joined the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) in 2012.

Dr. De Las Nueces was recognized in 2014 as one of Boston’s Top 40 under 40 Leaders by the Boston Business Journal and received a 40 Under 40 Leaders in Health Award in 2018 from the National Minority Quality Forum.  She now serves as Chief Medical Officer of BHCHP and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine at Boston University.