Diana Farid

Biography

Diana Farid MD, MPH is a staff physician at the Stanford Vaden Student Health Center, clinical instructor in the Stanford Department of Medicine, affiliated faculty of Stanford School of Medicine's Medicine and the Muse Program in Medical Humanities and the Arts, Center for Biomedical Ethics and writer. She holds a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies from Berkeley and Masters in Public Health from UCLA where she also completed a Child and Family Health Leadership fellowship focused on health communications. She has provided public health education and health care in rural villages in Honduras, promoted peace in the Ukraine and Malaysia, served at an international school in China, worked at the US Agency for International Development in human rights and has had active roles at both Physicians for Social Responsibility and Physicians for Human Rights. She has cared for patients in a wide range of clinic settings including at the Los Angeles Free Clinic, where she also precepted internal medicine residents. For two years, she served as "Doctoring" course faculty to first year UCLA medical students. As a physician consultant for "The Media Project” in 2004, she worked with television and film writers and producers to promote adolescent health through entertainment. And in 2009, as a producer with FiddleHeadFern Productions, she completed production of a feature length documentary film, "American Rhythms" (americanrhythmsmovie.com/), which follows a group of 5th grade students at a Los Angeles urban elementary school and their experience of the positive psychological and emotional health effects of a tailored drumming program.

Research Interest

Family Medicine