Description
Despite that body mass index (BMI) is a measure widely recognized as imprecise and of limited diagnostic utility, it remains in use in health care, including in procedure candidacy screening and to disqualify some patients’ access to indicated interventions. In this Sept 10th Grand Rounds, Drs Fatima Cody Stanford and Natalie Boero will examine the clinical applications of BMI and their effects on patients, and how our understanding of the obesity "epidemic" has evolved.
Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, MBA is an obesity medicine physician, scientist, educator, and policy maker at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She is an expert in obesity medicine who bridges the intersection of medicine, public health, policy, and disparities. Dr. Stanford has gained significant media exposure, having appeared on platforms such as 60 Minutes, Oprah, with Sanjay Gupta, and Lester Holt. She has an extensive academic portfolio with over 275 peer-reviewed publications, highlighting her contributions to the field.
Natalie Boero, PhD is a professor of Sociology, Chair of the Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, and an affiliated faculty member in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at San José State University. She received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. Her first book, Killer Fat: Media, Medicine and Morals in the American Obesity Epidemic was published in August 2012 by Rutgers University Press and more recently she co-edited the Oxford Handbook of the Sociology and of the Body and Embodiment published by Oxford University Press in 2020.