This interview was recorded in April, 2020, as data about the effects of COVID on Black people and other marginalized communities was released. The information shared by Dr. Cody Stanford is even more impactful today, as systemic racism continues to impact the physical and mental health of BIPOC people in many different ways.
In this series on healthcare and social disparities, Dr. Jill Wener, a board-certified Internal Medicine specialist, meditation expert, and tapping practitioner, interviews experts in multiple fields relating to social justice and anti-racism. In this video, Jill interviews Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, fellowship trained obesity medicine physician and scientist. Dr. Stanford shares her knowledge and insights about health disparities amongst minorities, both before and during coronavirus. In particular, she discusses risk factors for obesity and how obesity and chronic stress due to systemic racism affect outcomes amongst Black patients. Dr. Stanford shares how bias has affected her own daily experience, and what you can do to learn more about your own bias (even if you think you don't have any!).
Dr. Stanford is a fellowship-trained obesity medicine physician scientist who cares for children, adolescents, and adults. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians, the American Heart Association, and The Obesity Society. She is widely published in peer reviewed journals such as NEJM and Annals of Internal Medicine, in popular press outlets such as the NY Times, and as a featured expert on numerous broadcast television outlets such as CNN. She served as the keynote speaker on obesity for the AMA House of Delegates prior to their decision to acknowledge obesity as a chronic disease at their 2013 meeting. She currently serves as vice chair for the AMA Minority Affairs Section.
LINKS
Unsure if you have bias? Take the Harvard Implicit Association Test on race: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
Learn more about Dr. Stanford:
Website: https://www.weightcenter.org
Twitter: www.twitter.com/fstanfordmd
Instagram: www.instagram.com/fstanfordmd
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