Waltham,
Mass. – March 17th – Fatima Cody Stanford, M.D., M.P.H., M.P.A., an Obesity
Medicine Physician for Adults, Adolescents, and Children at the Massachusetts
General Hospital Weight Center and an Instructor in Medicine and Pediatrics at
Harvard Medical School, has been honored by the Massachusetts Medical Society
as the 2017 recipient of the Women’s Health Award, an honor recognizing a
physician for outstanding contributions that advance women’s health in
Massachusetts. She will receive the
award at the medical society’s Women’s Health Forum on April 21 in
Waltham.
In
nominating her for the award, her colleagues noted her “immense expertise on
the medical and social aspects of obesity,” her “passion and dedication to her
patients and her research,” and her abilities as a “phenomenal teacher, role
model, research advisor, and mentor.”
Trained
in internal medicine, pediatrics, and obesity medicine, Dr. Stanford is also
Affiliated Faculty of the MGH Mongan Institute of Health Policy, an Associate
Member of the MGH Disparities Solution Center, and a Fellow of The Obesity
Society and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Active
with a number of medical and healthcare organizations, Dr. Stanford is a member
of the Governing Council of Minority Affairs Section of the American Medical
Association, Advocacy Co-Chair of The Obesity Society, Health and Public Policy
Co-Chair and a member of the Governor’s Council of the Massachusetts Chapter of
the American College of Physicians, and a member of the Diversity and Inclusion
Board of the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is
also a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Committee on Nutrition and
Physical Activity and Young Physicians Section.
She is
widely published in the peer-reviewed medical literature in journals such as
the New England Journal of Medicine,
Circulation, Annals of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, the
International Journal of Obesity, and Obesity. She serves as an ad-hoc
reviewer for a number of medical journals. Since 2013, she has been a general
editor for internal medicine, pediatrics, and obesity for EBSCO/Dynamed, a
clinical reference tool, and since 2016 as associate editor of Pediatric
Gastroenterology and Hepatology for Frontiers
in Pediatrics. She is regularly featured in media broadcast and print
outlets including CNN, PBS, Time, Self, Women’s Health, Glamour, Cosmopolitan,
Ebony, and The Boston Globe.
The
Women’s Health Award from the medical society is the latest of many awards Dr.
Stanford has received. Among them are the Gold Congressional Medal from the
U.S. Congress; the Paul Ambrose Award, Foundation Leadership Award, and
Inspirational Physician awards from the American Medical Association; the
Johnson Leadership Award from the American College of Physicians; and the
Harold Amos Faculty Diversity Award from Harvard Medical School.
Dr.
Stanford received her B.S. in Anthropology and Human Biology from Emory
University in Atlanta where she was an Emory MLK Scholar, Georgia Governor’s Scholar,
and an inductee into the Emory College Hall of Fame. She received her Master of
Public Health in Health Policy and Management from the Emory University Rollins
School of Public Health and her M.D. from the Medical College of Georgia School
of Medicine where she was a Stoney Scholar.
She also earned a Master of Public Administration from the Harvard
Kennedy School of Government as a Zuckerman Fellow in the Harvard Center for
Public Leadership.
The Massachusetts Medical Society, with some
25,000 physicians and student members, is dedicated to educating and advocating
for the patients and physicians of Massachusetts. The Society, under the
auspices of NEJM Group, publishes the New England Journal of Medicine, a
leading global medical journal and web site, and Journal Watch alerts and
newsletters covering 13 specialties. The Society is also a leader in continuing
medical education providing accredited and certified activities across the
globe for physicians and other health care professionals. Founded in 1781, MMS is the oldest
continuously operating medical society in the country. For more information
please visit www.massmed.org, www.nejm.org, or www.jwatch.org.
