Dr. Anderson is Associate Dean of Allied Health Programs at Pace University in the College of Health Professions (NY), an Associate Clinical Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, NY), and a Research Professor at Pacific College of Health and Science (NY). She earned her PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Sydney (Australia), her Masters in Higher Education from Teachers College Columbia University, and her Masters in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (New England School of Acupuncture).

Dr. Anderson has over 25 years of administrative, clinical, research and teaching experience. Her recent federally-funded research is in the field of integrative medicine for chronic pain in the underserved, and developing curriculum and instruction in evidence-based medicine. Dr. Anderson is a member of the NIH National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health, serves as an associate editor for Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing, and is co-chair of the Research Working Group of the Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health. From 2009-2018 she maintained a Chinese medicine private practice at New York University Fertility Center and is an internationally recognized expert in the use of acupuncture to improve assisted reproductive outcomes.

In 2020 Dr. Anderson completed the Duke University year-long Leadership in Integrative Health and Medicine program.

McKee DM, Nielsen A, Anderson B, Chuang E, Connolly M, Gao Q, Gil EN, Lechuga C, Kim M, Naqvi H, Kligler B. Individual vs. group delivery of acupuncture therapy for chronic musculoskeletal pain in urban primary care – A randomized trial. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2020;Feb 19. PMID:32076985

Nielsen A, Anderson B, Citkovitz C, Botet P, Correia S, Duque V, Greene S, Mah D, Moore D, Pagliarini, A, McKee D, Kligler B. Developing and employing ‘responsive manualization’ in the ‘Acupuncture Approaches to Decrease Disparities in Outcomes of Pain Treatment’ comparative effectiveness study. Acupuncture Medicine 2019;37(3):184-191. PMID: 30900480.

Anderson BJ, Jurawanichkul S, Kligler BE, Marantz PR, Evans R. Interdisciplinary relationship models for Complementary and integrative health: perspectives of Chinese medicine practitioners in the United States. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2019; 25(3):288-295. PMID: 30523704.

Hullender Rubin LE, Anderson BJ, Craig LB. Acupuncture and in vitro fertilization: current and future directions. Acupuncture Medicine 2018; 36(2):117-122. PMID: 29440044.

Menard M, Weeks J, Anderson B, Meeker B, Calabrese C, O’Bryon D and Cramer G. Consensus recommendations to NCCIH from research faculty in a transdisciplinary academic consortium for complementary and integrative health and medicine. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2015; 21(7): 386-94. PMID: 26133203

McKee MD, Kligler B, Fletcher J, Biryukov F, Casalaina W, Anderson BJ and Blank AE. Outcomes of acupuncture for chronic pain in urban primary care. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2013;26(6):692-700. PMID: 24204065.

Anderson BJ, Herron PD, Downie SA, Myers DC, Milan FB, Olson TR and Kligler BE. Interprofessional Student Education: Exchange program between Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. Explore 2012; 8:377-381. PMID: 23141796.