Faculty

Fátima Rodriguez, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Section Chief of Preventive Cardiology in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, and the Associate Director of the Center for Digital Health (health equity). 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 a fellowship in cardiology at Stanford before joining the faculty in 2017. Dr. Rodriguez’s research interests include a range of topics relating to racial and ethnic disparities in guideline adherence, personalizing cardiovascular disease risk prediction and prevention, and leveraging digital health tools to improve the care of diverse patients. Her research group, the HEART (Health Equity Advancement through Research and Technology) lab, emphasizes a multidisciplinary approach to solving health inequities by building research collaborations with broad scientific input and stakeholders and includes over 25 active trainees. She has authored over 230 peer-reviewed publications and received numerous research accolades including the 2022 American College of Cardiology’s Douglas P. Zipes Distinguished Young Scientist Award, Stanford University’s Alderman Award for Excellence in Clinical Research, the Department of Medicine Chair Diversity Investigator Award, and the Internal Medicine Residency Research Mentor 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.