Dr. Nakamura received her medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine. She completed pediatric residency training at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital and pediatric infectious diseases fellowship training at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. She then pursued fellowship training in pediatric health services research at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School, during which she received her Master of Public Health degree from Harvard School of Public Health. She joined the Infectious Diseases faculty in 2009.

As Medical Director for the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, Dr. Nakamura strives to optimize infectious diseases management by improving the safe and judicious use of antimicrobials. She also cares for patients on the General Infectious Diseases and Immunocompromised Host inpatient consult services.