A Stanford University graduate, she attended medical school at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, where she received the Riland Award in 1981 for excellence in osteopathic manual medicine. She completed her internship at Doctors Hospital in Atlanta, GA, receiving the Hoyt Trimble Award for Proficiency in Manual Medicine. Dr. Nerman has studied with some of the greatest osteopathic physicians, including Rebecca and Howard Lippincott, Robert Fulford, Herbert Miller, Anne Wales, Stanley Schiowitz, Ernest Bernhardi, Viola Frymann and Joyce Vetterlein. She began her homeopathic training in 1983, and has since furthered her study with leading experts in the field.