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Diana Farid
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Vaden Health Center
BioDiana Farid MD, MPH is a physician, award-winning author, poet, and filmmaker. She is a staff physician at the Stanford Vaden Health Center and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine. She holds a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies from Berkeley, with a concentration in public health, socio-economic development, and human rights. She was awarded a fellowship by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to be a Child and Family Health Leadership Fellow at UCLA, where she also earned a Masters in Public Health focused on community health, health communications, and storytelling.
She creates and amplifies stories and art to foster health.
As a physician consultant for The Media Project, Advocates for Youth, Diana worked with writers and producers for TV shows, such as GREY’S ANATOMY and STRONG MEDICINE, to promote adolescent health through entertainment. Her debut feature length documentary film production, AMERICAN RHYTHMS (2008) (americanrhythmsmovie.com/), explores the positive impact of music on elementary school students.
She has lead or presented at Medical Humanities and Arts programs across Stanford, including annual readings of her original poetry in collaboration with the St. Lawrence String Quartet, leading The Pegasus Writers' "The Body as Temple" curated reading, and leading Medicine and the Muse's annual collaboration with UNAFF, among others. As the first Assistant Director of Stanford School of Medicine’s Program in Bioethics and Film, she produced film screenings and panel discussions with producers, directors, field experts, Stanford faculty, students, and the community, exploring films with vital bioethical implications. She established the first Stanford Film and Medicine Interest group for medical students to study film as a health promotion tool and has mentored medical student film projects. She was a lead producer of the Stanford Medicine and the Muse/Medical Humanities and the Arts' 2018 Frankenstein@200 year-long cross-campus film screening series and speaker panels on the personal, cultural, social, and bioethical impact of medical research, technology, and healthcare through the lens of story in film. Currently, she mentors Medical Humanities and Art Faculty Fellows.
Diana’s poems have been presented in anthologies, journals, gallery exhibits, and live story telling events, including The Nocturnists. Her poem, "Dear Medicine", is part of the seminal 2019 report by the National Academy of Medicine, “Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout”. She is an Editorial Board member of the medical humanities journal, The Pharos.
Her multi-award winning picture book, WHEN YOU BREATHE, melds respiratory science with poetry. Her multi-award winning novel WAVE, noted as “Raw and powerful…Rich, layered and heart-rending” — Kirkus, won the Cybils Award for Novel in Verse and was named a Best Middle Grade Book of 2022 by the School Library Journal. WAVE highlights the power of poetry and music on wellbeing. Her 2024 books, THE LIGHT OF HOME and ALREADY ALL THE LOVE, celebrate home and presence. -
Michele Kastelein
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Vaden Health Center
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAt Stanford University School of Medicine, one of our major goals is to translate research insights into practical advances that enhance and prolong life. We foster a two-way transfer of knowledge between research laboratories and patient-care settings. Our faculty, staff, postdoctoral scholars and students engage in interdisciplinary efforts to turn this knowledge into therapies that treat or prevent disease.
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Yeuen Kim
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Vaden Health Center
BioYeuen Kim MD MAS is an internal medicine physician with expertise in population health, medical humanities educational interventions, and working with vulnerable populations in urban settings. She trained at Brown University's Program in Liberal Medical Education and completed residency/chief residency at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, CA. She has worked with vulnerable populations in ambulatory and mobile settings as a primary care attending and medical outreach physician, as well as completing a Masters' and fellowship in clinical research at UCSF's Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology & SFGH DGIM, where she evaluated electronic referrals to subspecialty clinics from safety settings (Kim, Chen et al, JGIM 2009.) She worked with the SF and Santa Clara County public health departments to help reduce mortality and improve COVID19 and mpox mitigation, especially at congregate residential facilities through better ventilation, public-private collaboration, and addressing determinants of health for essential workers. Since 2013, she has facilitated art gallery-based workshops for physicians and learners to improve observation and communication skills. She co-leads narrative medicine and oncology workshops for students, residents (Edwards, Kim et al, BMJ Educ 2022) and faculty as a clinical associate professor in Primary care and population health.
