Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA

Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics

Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, MBA, FAAP, FACP, FAHA, FAMWA, FTOS is an obesity medicine physician scientist, educator, and policy maker at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She is a national and international sought after expert in obesity medicine who bridges the intersection of medicine, public health, policy, and disparities.

Dr. Stanford received her BS and MPH from Emory University as a MLK Scholar, her MD from the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine as a Stoney Scholar, her MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as a Zuckerman Fellow in the Harvard Center for Public Leadership, and her MBA at the Quantic School of Business and Technology as a merit-based scholar. She completed her Obesity Medicine & Nutrition Fellowship at MGH/HMS after completing her internal medicine and pediatrics residency at the University of South Carolina.

Upon completion of her MPH, Dr. Stanford received the Gold Congressional Award, the highest honor that Congress bestows upon America’s youth. Dr. Stanford has completed a medicine and media internship at the Discovery Channel. An American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation Leadership Award recipient in 2005, an AMA Paul Ambrose Award for national leadership among resident physicians in 2009, she was selected for the AMA Inspirational Physician Award in 2015. The American College of Physicians (ACP) selected her as the 2013 recipient of the Joseph E. Johnson Leadership Award and the Massachusetts ACP selected her for the Young Leadership Award in 2015. She is the 2017 recipient of the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Amos Diversity Award and Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) Award for Women’s Health. The MMS selected her as the 2019 Suffolk District Community Clinician of the Year and for the Reducing Health Disparities Award. She was named the 2020 Clinician of the Year by The Obesity Society (TOS). In 2021, she has received the HMS Young Mentor Award, the MMS Grant V. Rodkey Award for her contributions to medical education, and the AMA Dr. Edmond and Rima Cabbabe Dedication to the Profession Award.

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