Fatima_Cody_Stanford

Fatima Cody Stanford

Fatima Cody Stanford

American obesity medicine physician

Fatima Cody Stanford is an American obesity medicine physician, internist, and pediatrician and an associate professor of medicine and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.[1] She is one of the most highly cited scientists in the field of obesity.[2][3] She is recognized for shifting the global perception of obesity as a chronic disease.[4]

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Early life and education

Stanford was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, and she attended the Atlanta Public Schools where she was valedictorian of Benjamin E. Mays High School[5][6] and finalist in the International Science and Engineering Fair.[7][8] She received a Martin Luther King Scholarship to complete undergraduate studies at Emory University, and also completed a Master of Public Health degree at the same university.[9][10] She is a Diamond Life Member of Delta Sigma Theta.[11]

Stanford completed her medical training at the Medical College of Georgia, where she was the first black class president.[12] She completed her medical residency at the University of South Carolina and her fellowship in obesity medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.[13] She completed her Master of Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as a Zuckerman Fellow in the Center for Public Leadership[14] and her Executive Master of Business Administration at Quantic School of Business and Technology.[15]

Career

She has served as the chair of the Minority Affairs Section (MAS) for the American Medical Association,[16][17] chair of the American College of Physicians Obesity Advisory Committee,[17] executive committee member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Obesity,[18] The Obesity Society Advocacy, Public Affairs, and Regulatory Board of Directors member,[19] the American Board of Obesity Medicine Outreach and Awareness Committee,[20] and the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Heart Association Board of Directors.[21]

She is the director of diversity and inclusion for the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at Harvard (NORCH).[22] Through the NIH, she serves as the director of the Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) working group on workforce diversity.[23]

Stanford's research focuses on the utilization of anti-obesity pharmacotherapy after bariatric surgery,[24][25][26] outcomes and utility of adolescent bariatric surgery,[27][28][29] pharmacotherapy for the treatment for obesity,[30][31][32] physician and education and training in obesity care.[33][34][35][36] She has also published work in COVID-19 disparities with Esther Duflo and Marcella Alsan.[37][38][39]

Stanford has conducted interviews with the New York Times,[40] USA Today,[41] Time,[42] U.S. News & World Report,[43] Glamour,[44] and NPR.[45][46] On January 1, 2023, Stanford appeared on 60 Minutes with Lesley Stahl, stating obesity is a chronic disease and that there is physician bias against those with excess weight [47] In an interview with Deborah Roberts on addressing weight stigma, Dr. Stanford advocates to eliminate bias towards those with higher weights.[48] Oprah Winfrey interviewed Dr. Stanford as an obesity expert for her "The Life You Want Class: The State of the Weight" on Oprah Daily.[49] In this interview, she teaches about the science of obesity as a chronic disease.[50] In an interview with Sanjay Gupta for his CNN Chasing life podcast, she coined the term "street corner medicine" to refer to the assumption that people judge people based on their size-- they assume that heavier people are unhealthy and leaner people are healthy without investigating whether this is factual by evaluating metabolic health parameters such as blood pressure, cholesterol, liver function tests, blood sugar, etc.[51]

She was deputy editor for Contemporary Clinical Trials.[52]

In 2018, Stanford said she was racially profiled when administering medical assistance to a fellow passenger on a Delta Airlines flight. Flight attendants did not believe that she was a physician despite her presenting her medical license to them.[53][54][55][56][57]

The United States Department of Health and Human Services and United States Department of Agriculture named Dr. Stanford to the 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans Advisory Committee as one of 20 nationally recognized nutrition and public health experts.[58]

Books

  • Facing Overweight and Obesity: A Complete Guide for Children and Adults with J.R. Stevens and T.A. Stern (Mass General Hospital Psychiatry Academy, February 4, 2019)
  • Deja Review: Behavioral Sciences, 1st Edition (McGraw Hill, November 1, 2006)

Honors and awards

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