Dr. Anisha I. Patel is currently a Professor in the Division of General Pediatrics at Stanford University. She earned a medical degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, completed a residency and chief residency in pediatrics at Stanford University, a fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at UCLA, and a post-doctoral fellowship in the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF. She also served as a Member at the Stanford Diabetes Research Center, a Director of Community-Engaged Research at the Stanford Maternal and Child Health Research Institute, an Equity Analytics Co-Director at the Stanford Office of Child Health Equity, and an Associate Dean of Research at the Stanford School of Medicine. Her research interests focus on reducing socioeconomic disparities in chronic diseases, including childhood obesity.