Taru Sinha, MD

Taru Sinha is an associate professor at the Department of Family Medicine. She also serves as the Director of The Women’s Health curriculum at CentraState Family Medicine Residency Program.

She graduated from Delhi University in 1992 – Lady Hardinge Medical School - and subsequently completed her Family Medicine Residency Program at the JFK-UMDNJ program in Edison. She received the Faculty Award upon graduation and went on to join the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee as an Assistant Professor, teaching faculty at the Racine Family Medicine Residency Program.

Her area of interest has been Women’s Health, and she completed a Faculty Development Fellowship in 2000, with research in organizational change in medicine. Four years and 2 kids later, she moved back to the east coast, as Associate Director at the Mountainside Family Medicine Residency Program. She was also Acting Program Director there before joining CentraState when they were starting the program in 2005.

She has also been the Medical Director of Planned Parenthood, Racine, and has been involved with student health as well as working with women inmates. Currently, she is a part of the HIB (Harassment/intimidation/bullying) Task Force at the Princeton School District and has served on the Board of Friends of Princeton Charter School.