Biography

Fátima Rodriguez, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Section Chief of Preventive Cardiology, and the Associate Director of Stanford’s Center for Digital Health. Dr. Rodriguez earned her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and her MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health as a Zuckerman Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership. She then completed internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and fellowship at Stanford University before joining the faculty. Dr. Rodriguez leads an interdisciplinary research program aimed at population-level interventions to eliminate disparities in cardiovascular disease and promote cardiovascular health. Her contributions to science include documenting racial and ethnic disparities in guideline adherence, personalizing cardiovascular disease risk prediction and prevention, artificial intelligence for opportunistic screening of atherosclerosis, and leveraging digital health tools to improve the care of diverse patients. She has authored over 240 peer-reviewed publications on these topics and received the 2022 American College of Cardiology’s Douglas P. Zipes Distinguished Young Scientist Award. Her work is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the American Heart Association, and the Doris Duke Foundation. Dr. Rodriguez is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and the American Society of Preventive Cardiology. She serves as the Co-Chair of the National Minority Health Alliance and is a member of the American Heart Association’s Scientific Publishing Committee.

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