Fatima Cody Stanford
Biographic Data
| ID | 164436 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fatima Cody Stanford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fatima Cody |
| FAMILY NAME | Stanford |
| SIGNATURE | STANFORD F C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts General Hospital |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4616-533X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Law and Policy Efforts to Dismantle Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Reimagining Urban Spaces
The 2023 Maui Wildfires and the Mental Health Effects of Climate-Induced Relocation
Analysis of Physician Compensation Studies by Gender, Race, and Ethnicity
Purpose: This report investigated physician compensation studies by gender, race, and ethnicity. Methods: Published U.S. physician compensation studies were assessed. Results: Of the 47 data sets within 46 studies, 36 analyzed compensation by gender and 32 (88.9%) found disparities. Thirteen and eight analyzed for race and ethnicity, with disparities found in four (30.8%) and none, respectively. The sample sizes of the four data sets with differe…
All Infrastructure Is Health Infrastructure
AffiliationsBhav Jain is with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Simar S. Bajaj is with Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Fatima Cody Stanford is with the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), MGH Weight Center, Departments of Medicine (Division of Endocrinology-Neuroendocrine) and Pediatrics (Division of Endocrinology), and the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at Harvard (NORCH), Boston, MA
Medicine, structural racism, and systems
Beyond Tuskegee — Vaccine Distrust and Everyday Racism
Beyond Tuskegee When we hyperfocus on a few historical racist atrocities, we ascribe current Black health experiences to past racism, rooting our present in immovable past events and undermining ef...
Admissions Is Not Enough
The achievement gap is a disparity in academic and standardized test performance that exists between White and underrepresented minority (URM) students that begins as early as preschool and worsens as students progress through the educational system. Medical education is not immune to this inequality. URM medical students are more likely to experience delayed graduation and course failure, even after accounting for science grade point average and…
Doctors' and Nurses' Social Media Ads Reduced Holiday Travel and Covid-19 Infections
We thank the health team at Facebook for their in-kind financial
Medical Flight Emergencies and Bias
One in 604 flights will have a medical emergency. With 87,000 flights per day in the United States alone, that is ∼144 medical emergencies per day. When a passenger has a medical emergency in-flight, do staff respond with equity to persons who offer assistance? Unfortunately, several news stories have highlighted race and gender bias against woman physicians of color who come to the aid of a person in distress while in-flight. Three separate stor…
Weight Loss Medications in Young Adults after Bariatric Surgery for Weight Regain or Inadequate Weight Loss
This paper presents a retrospective cohort study of weight loss medications in young adults aged 21 to 30 following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) and sleeve gastrectomy (SG) between November 2000 and June 2014. Data were collected from patients who used topiramate, phentermine, and/or metformin postoperatively. Percentage of patients achieving ≥5%, ≥10%, or ≥15% weight loss on medications was determined and percent weight change on each medicat…
Racial Differences in Bone Microarchitecture and Estimated Strength at the Distal Radius and Distal Tibia in Older Adolescent Girls
Factors that Influence Physicians’ and Medical Students’ Confidence in Counseling Patients About Physical Activity
Obesity Takes Center Stage
Introduction to the April 2010 Virtual Mentor issue on the topic of obesity. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
All Infrastructure Is Health Infrastructure
AffiliationsBhav Jain is with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Simar S. Bajaj is with Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Fatima Cody Stanford is with the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), MGH Weight Center, Departments of Medicine (Division of Endocrinology-Neuroendocrine) and Pediatrics (Division of Endocrinology), and the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at Harvard (NORCH), Boston, MA
Reimagining Urban Spaces
Medicine, structural racism, and systems
Obesity Takes Center Stage
Introduction to the April 2010 Virtual Mentor issue on the topic of obesity. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Factors that Influence Physicians’ and Medical Students’ Confidence in Counseling Patients About Physical Activity
Racial Differences in Bone Microarchitecture and Estimated Strength at the Distal Radius and Distal Tibia in Older Adolescent Girls
Weight Loss Medications in Young Adults after Bariatric Surgery for Weight Regain or Inadequate Weight Loss
This paper presents a retrospective cohort study of weight loss medications in young adults aged 21 to 30 following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) and sleeve gastrectomy (SG) between November 2000 and June 2014. Data were collected from patients who used topiramate, phentermine, and/or metformin postoperatively. Percentage of patients achieving ≥5%, ≥10%, or ≥15% weight loss on medications was determined and percent weight change on each medicat…
Medical Flight Emergencies and Bias
One in 604 flights will have a medical emergency. With 87,000 flights per day in the United States alone, that is ∼144 medical emergencies per day. When a passenger has a medical emergency in-flight, do staff respond with equity to persons who offer assistance? Unfortunately, several news stories have highlighted race and gender bias against woman physicians of color who come to the aid of a person in distress while in-flight. Three separate stor…
Beyond Tuskegee — Vaccine Distrust and Everyday Racism
Beyond Tuskegee When we hyperfocus on a few historical racist atrocities, we ascribe current Black health experiences to past racism, rooting our present in immovable past events and undermining ef...
Admissions Is Not Enough
The achievement gap is a disparity in academic and standardized test performance that exists between White and underrepresented minority (URM) students that begins as early as preschool and worsens as students progress through the educational system. Medical education is not immune to this inequality. URM medical students are more likely to experience delayed graduation and course failure, even after accounting for science grade point average and…
Doctors' and Nurses' Social Media Ads Reduced Holiday Travel and Covid-19 Infections
We thank the health team at Facebook for their in-kind financial
Analysis of Physician Compensation Studies by Gender, Race, and Ethnicity
Purpose: This report investigated physician compensation studies by gender, race, and ethnicity. Methods: Published U.S. physician compensation studies were assessed. Results: Of the 47 data sets within 46 studies, 36 analyzed compensation by gender and 32 (88.9%) found disparities. Thirteen and eight analyzed for race and ethnicity, with disparities found in four (30.8%) and none, respectively. The sample sizes of the four data sets with differe…
All Infrastructure Is Health Infrastructure
AffiliationsBhav Jain is with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Simar S. Bajaj is with Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Fatima Cody Stanford is with the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), MGH Weight Center, Departments of Medicine (Division of Endocrinology-Neuroendocrine) and Pediatrics (Division of Endocrinology), and the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at Harvard (NORCH), Boston, MA
Medicine, structural racism, and systems
Reimagining Urban Spaces
The 2023 Maui Wildfires and the Mental Health Effects of Climate-Induced Relocation
Law and Policy Efforts to Dismantle Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Medicine (14 works) · Internal Medicine (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Family medicine (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Obesity (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)