Fatima Cody Stanford

Fatima Cody Stanford is a fellowship-trained obesity medicine physician scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School based in Boston, Massachusetts.[1][2]

Fatima Cody Stanford
Born	Atlanta, Georgia
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Emory University (BS), Emory Rollins School of Public Health (MPH) Medical College of Georgia (MD), Harvard Kennedy School of Government MPA)
Occupation	physician
Known for	obesity medicine
Website	scholar.harvard.edu/fatimacodystanford/home

Early life

Born Fatima Shani Cody, Stanford was raised in Atlanta, Georgia. She completed her early education at Benjamin Elijah Mays High School where she was valedictorian of her high school class and earned over $1.2 million in college scholarship offers.[3]

Education

Stanford received her BS and MPH degrees from Emory University as a MLK Scholar and Emory College Hall of Fame Inductee [4] and was a marshal for her graduating class, her MD from the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine as a Stoney Scholar,[5] and her MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as a Zuckerman Fellow [6] in the Harvard Center for Public Leadership. She completed her Obesity Medicine & Nutrition Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School after completing her internal medicine and pediatrics residency at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and Palmetto Health where she was chief resident.

Pre-medical and medical career

She has been a health communications fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a behavioral sciences intern at the American Cancer Society. Upon completion of her MPH, she received the Gold Congressional Award, the highest honor that Congress bestows upon America's youth presented by her Congressman John Lewis.[4][7] Stanford also completed a medicine and media internship at the Discovery Channel. Before medical school, she worked as a prevention co-ordinator for the Dekalb Rape Crisis Center,[8] renamed the Day League, in metro Atlanta where she was a consultant to the National Center for Victims of Crime.[9]

Prior to the American Medical Association vote to acknowledge obesity as a disease,[10] Stanford was its keynote speaker.[11] Her work in obesity medicine and gender pay disparities has been covered by the lay press in outlets such as The New York Times,[12] CNN,[13] Time,[14] Self,[15] Cosmopolitan,[16] Glamour,[17] PBS,[18] PopSugar,[19] Refinery29,[20] Business Insider,[21] Marie Claire,[22] The New Zealand Herald,[23] South China Morning Post,[24] and several others. She has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles on obesity and disparities as a research scientist in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine,[25] Annals of Internal Medicine,[26] Circulation,[27] JAMA Pediatrics,[28] International Journal of Obesity,[29] Obesity,[30] and British Journal of Sports Medicine.[31] She is a lecturer on obesity in the United States and around the world.[32] Stanford is the author of Facing Overweight and Obesity, a book for adults and children with overweight and obesity.[33]

Organizational involvement

While at Emory University, she became a member of the Omicron Xi chapter of Delta Sigma Theta where she was selected as Southern Region Collegiate Soror of the year before becoming a Diamond Life Member. She was the first black president of the Inter-sorority Council at Emory University[34] and first black class president of the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine.[5] She founded the second state chapter of the Association of Women Surgeons in Georgia while she was a first-year medical student. She is the former Junior Doctor's Network socio-medical affairs officer for the World Medical Association,[35] American Medical Association Minority Affairs Section At-large member,[36] American College of Physicians Academic Advisory Board and Education and Publication Committee Member [37] and Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Physicians Governor's Council Member,[38] The Obesity Society Advocacy Committee Co-Chair,[39] Massachusetts Medical Society Nutrition and Physical Activity Chair,[40] American Board of Obesity Medicine Outreach and Awareness Committee.[41] To help address harassment and inequity in healthcare, she became a founding member of Time's Up Healthcare.[42]

Awards and honors

An American Medical Association Foundation Leadership Award recipient in 2005, an AMA Paul Ambrose Award for national leadership among resident physicians in 2009,[43] she was selected for the AMA Inspirational Physician Award in 2015.[44] The American College of Physicians selected her as the 2013 recipient of the Joseph E. Johnson Leadership Award[45] and the Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Physicians selected her for the Young Leadership Award in 2015. In 2016, she was named to the National Minority Quality Forum Top 40 Under 40.[46] She was named to the Emory University Inaugural Top 40 under 40.[47] She is the 2017 recipient of the Harvard Medical School Amos Diversity Award [48] and Massachusetts Medical Society Award for Women's Health.[49] The Massachusetts Medical Society selected her as the 2019 Suffolk District Community Clinician of the Year and for the 2019 Reducing Health Disparities Award.[50][51] At Massachusetts General Hospital, she is a physician scientist development award recipient.[52] She is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians, American Heart Association, and The Obesity Society.[2]

Delta Air Lines incident

On October 30, 2018, Stanford traveled on flight DL 5935 on Delta Air Lines operated by their partner, Republic Airline, on a direct flight into Boston Logan International Airport. On this flight, Stanford sought to provide care to a fellow passenger seated in her immediate vicinity when her validity as a medical doctor was questioned by the flight attendants aboard despite presenting her Board of Registration in Medicine active license for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. After her initial tweet about the incident, it became a national and international news story covered by major news outlets such as NBC News,[53] The New York Times,[54] CNN,[55] and Fortune[56]

References

1. "Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA - Neuroendocrinology, Department of Pediatrics - Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA". www.massgeneral.org.
   - "Fatima Stanford - Harvard Catalyst Profiles - Harvard Catalyst". connects.catalyst.harvard.edu.
2. "Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, FAAP, FACP, FTOS". scholar.harvard.edu.
3. Company, Johnson Publishing (1 July 1996). "Ebony". Johnson Publishing Company – via Google Books.
4. "Autumn 2001 Public Health Magazine: Alumni News". www.whsc.emory.edu.
5. https://augusta.openrepository.com/augusta/bitstream/10675.2/310950/1/beeper_2005_v15n5.pdf
6. https://cpl.hks.harvard.edu/cpl-videos/student-testimonial-fatima Zuckerman Fellow
7. "The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia on June 28, 2001 · 250". Newspapers.com.
8. "Respect Curriculum, Dekalb Rape Crisis Center, Decatur, GA – Prevent Connect Wiki".
9. https://augusta.openrepository.com/augusta/bitstream/10675.2/306824/1/beeper_2004_v14n11.pdf
10. Pollack, Andrew (18 June 2013). "A.M.A. Recognizes Obesity as a Disease". The New York Times.
11. American Medical Association (AMA). "AMA Innovations in Medicine, Fatima Cody Stanford, MD" – via YouTube.
12. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/24/opinion/on-treating-obesity-the-disease.html
13. "The gender pay gap for women doctors is big -- and getting worse". 2018-03-14.
14. "How to Help Your Kids Stay Fit Even if They're Not Athletic".
15. Miller, Korin. "1 in 10 People in the World Is Now Considered Obese". Self. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
    - "6 Things That Can Cause Your Blood Sugar to Spike or Drop". Self.
16. "Post-Election Stress Has Apparently Left a Lot of People Eating Their Feelings". Cosmopolitan. 2016-11-24.
17. "You Can Gain Weight from Stress, Even if You Eat and Work Out the Exact Same". Glamour.
    - "Here's the Real Deal with Birth Control and Your Weight". Glamour.
18. "Expert Q&A . Arthur". PBS KIDS.
19. Pridgett, Tamara (19 November 2018). "This Is the Surprising Connection Your Brain Has to Your Ability to Lose Weight". POPSUGAR Fitness. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
    - Pridgett, Tamara (4 February 2019). "If You Want to Lose Weight and Keep It Off, a Doctor Says to Skip Keto and Intermittent Fasting". POPSUGAR Fitness. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
20. "Should You be Wary of This Herb That "Destroys Sugar Cravings"?". Refinery29.
21. "Obesity Uncovered: How Well do North Americans Understand Their Health Insurance? Obesity Action Coalition Research Finds Americans, Canadians Confused About What's Available and Covered". Business Insider.
22. "A Final Consensus: Does Birth Control Really Make You Gain Weight?". Marie Claire. 2018-02-28.
23. "More children should have weight loss surgery, say Harvard scientists". New Zealand Herald. 2018-03-19.
24. "Meet the meat-free Hong Kong parents on a vegan mission". South China Morning Post. 2017-08-20.
25. "Metformin versus Placebo in Obese Pregnant Women without Diabetes". New England Journal of Medicine. 374 (25): 2501–2502. 2016. doi:10.1056/NEJMc1603067.
26. Stanford, Fatima Cody; Butsch, W. Scott (2016). "Metabolically Healthy Obesity and Development of Chronic Kidney Disease". Annals of Internal Medicine. 165 (10): 742–743. doi:10.7326/L16-0408. PMC 5308792. PMID 27842408.
27. Lee, Duck-Chul; Sui, Xuemei; Artero, Enrique G.; Lee, I-Min; Church, Timothy S.; McAuley, Paul A.; Stanford, Fatima C.; Kohl, Harold W.; Blair, Steven N. (2011). "Long-Term Effects of Changes in Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Body Mass Index on All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Men". Circulation. 124 (23): 2483–2490. doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.111.038422. PMC 3238382. PMID 22144631.
28. Stanford, Fatima Cody; Kyle, Theodore K. (2018). "Respectful Language and Care in Childhood Obesity". JAMA Pediatrics. 172 (11): 1001–1002. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.1912. PMC 6232190. PMID 30193352.
29. Stanford, F. C.; Alfaris, N.; Gomez, G.; Ricks, E. T.; Shukla, A. P.; Corey, K. E.; Pratt, J. S.; Pomp, A.; Rubino, F.; Aronne, L. J. (2017). "The utility of weight loss medications after bariatric surgery for weight regain or inadequate weight loss: A multi-center study". Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 13 (3): 491–500. doi:10.1016/j.soard.2016.10.018. PMC 6114136. PMID 27986587.
    - Stanford, F. C.; Kyle, T. K. (2015). "Why food policy and obesity policy are not synonymous: The need to establish clear obesity policy in the United States". International Journal of Obesity. 39 (12): 1667–1668. doi:10.1038/ijo.2015.191. PMC 6168080. PMID 26643152.
30. Stanford, F. C.; Kyle, T. K.; Claridy, M. D.; Nadglowski, J. F.; Apovian, C. M. (2015). "The influence of an individual's weight perception on the acceptance of bariatric surgery". Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.). 23 (2): 277–81. doi:10.1002/oby.20968. PMC 6339569. PMID 25546377.
31. Stanford, Fatima Cody; Durkin, Martin W.; Blair, Steven N.; Powell, Caroline Keller; Poston, Mary Beth; Stallworth, James Rast (2012). "Determining levels of physical activity in attending physicians, resident and fellow physicians and medical students in the USA". British Journal of Sports Medicine. 46 (5): 360–364. doi:10.1136/bjsports-2011-090299. PMID 22194220.
32. "Obesity: It's More Complex Than You Think". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. 25 July 2017.
    - http://news.unipv.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Treating-obesity_25-Maggio-2018.pdf
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37. "Education and Publication Committee - Committees & Councilspublisher=American College of Physicians". www.acponline.org.
38. https://www.acponline.org/system/files/documents/about_acp/chapters/ma/council_bios.pdf
39. "- TOSConnect". tosconnect.obesity.org.
40. "Massachusetts Medical Society: Fatima Cody Stanford, M.D., M.P.H., M.P.A. is honored by the Massachusetts Medical Society with The Women's Health Award". www.massmed.org.
41. "Outreach and Awareness Committee". 6 March 2018.
42. https://www.timesuphealthcare.org/founding_members
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44. "American Medical Association (AMA)". www.facebook.com.
45. "My Kind of Medicine: Real Lives of Practicing Internists: Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH - May 2013 - ACP". www.acponline.org.
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49. "Massachusetts Medical Society: Fatima Cody Stanford, M.D., M.P.H., M.P.A. is honored by the Massachusetts Medical Society with The Women's Health Award". www.massmed.org.
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53. "Black doctor claims Delta flight attendants questioned her credentials". NBC News.
54. Hauser, Christine (2 November 2018). "'Are You Actually an M.D.?': A Black Doctor Is Questioned as She Intervenes on a Delta Flight". The New York Times.
55. Crespo, Gisela. "Doctor says she was racially profiled while trying to help fellow passenger". CNN. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
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