Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford is an obesity medicine physician–scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She received her BS and MPH from Emory University as an MLK Scholar, her MD from the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine as a Stoney Scholar, and her MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as a Zuckerman Fellow in the Harvard Center for Public Leadership. She completed her Obesity Medicine and Nutrition Fellowship after completing her internal medicine and pediatrics residency at the University of South Carolina. An American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation Leadership Award recipient in 2005 and an AMA Paul Ambrose Award for national leadership among resident physicians in 2009, she was selected for the AMA Inspirational Physician Award in 2015. She is the 2017 recipient of the Harvard Medical School Amos Diversity Award and the Massachusetts Medical Society Award for Women’s Health. She was chosen for the Obesity Society Clinician of the Year in 2020. In 2021, she was awarded the AMA Dedication to the Profession Award. She is the 2021 recipient of the Emory Rollins School of Public Health Distinguished Alumni Award. In 2022, the National Academy of Medicine selected her as a Scholar in Diagnostic Excellence, and she was named to the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.
