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Nondiscrimination Statement Update

Boston Medical Center Health System complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, national origin (including limited English proficiency and primary language), religion, culture, physical or mental disabilities, socioeconomic status, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity and/or expression. BMCHS Provides free aids and services to people with disabilities and free language services to people whose primary language is not English.

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Campus Construction Update

Starting September 14, we’re closing the Menino building lobby entrance. This, along with the ongoing Yawkey building entrance closure, will help us bring you an even better campus experience that matches the exceptional care you've come to expect. Please enter the Menino and Yawkey buildings through the Moakley building, and make sure to leave extra time to get to your appointment. Thank you for your patience. 

Click here to learn more about our campus redesign. 

Robert B. Saper, MD

Family Medicine Physician

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About

Robert A. Saper, MD, is a board-certified family medicine physician at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and a professor of family medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. Dr. Saper is also Director of Integrative Medicine for the BMC Department of Family Medicine. Soon after arriving at BMC in 2004, Dr. Saper received a five year Academic Career Development Grant from the NIH National Center for Complementary Alternative Medicine. With this support, he published a pilot study of yoga for chronic low back pain in predominantly low income minorities recruited from federally qualified community health centers. In 2010, Dr. Saper was funded by the NIH to conduct a randomized controlled trial comparing the effectiveness and cost of yoga, physical therapy, and education for back pain. He is also funded by NIH to study yoga for back pain in veterans. Other major areas of research include the safety and efficacy of traditional Indian herbal medicines. Dr. Saper is the Past Chair of the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health.

  • Departments

  • Specialties

    Yoga, safety and efficacy of traditional Indian herbal medicines

  • Administrative Title

    Professor, Family Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

  • Residency

    Family Medicine, University of California (San Francisco), 1988-1991

  • Education

    Harvard Medical School, 1998

  • Board Certifications

    Family Medicine, American Board of Family Medicine

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