Fatima Cody Stanford MD, MPH, MPA, MBA, FAAP, FACP, FAHA, FAMWA, FTOS
Obesity Medicine Physician Scientist; Assistant Professor of Medicine; Director of Diversity, Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORCH), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Dr. Stanford practices and teaches at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)/ Harvard Medical School (HMS) as one of the first fellowship-trained obesity medicine physicians. 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 executive MBA as a merit-based scholar from the Quantic School of Business & Technology. She completed her Obesity Medicine & Nutrition Fellowship at MGH/HMS after completing her internal medicine/pediatrics residency at the University of South Carolina. She is a Gold Congressional Award recipient. The American College of Physicians (ACP) selected her as the 2013 recipient of the Johnson Leadership Award. She is the 2017 recipient of the HMS Amos Diversity Award and Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) Award for Women's Health. She was The Obesity Society (TOS) Clinician of the Year in 2020. In 2021, she was awarded the MMS Grant Rodkey Award for her dedication to medical students, the AMA Dedication to the Profession Award, and the Emory Rollins School of Public Health Distinguished Alumni Award.