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- Director of the Forum for Women in Medicine (FWIM)
Namrata Patel, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics and serves as the director for the Forum for Women in Medicine (FWIM) for the Department of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine. She completed her undergraduate studies at Emory University, her medical degree from The University of Tennessee College of Medicine, and combined internal medicine/pediatrics residency at Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals and Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital. 2019 marked the start of Dr. Patel’s role as a faculty member at Washington University School of Medicine.
Dr. Patel took over the Forum for Women In Medicine in 2024. FWIM is a professional development initiative established in 2014 that organizes skill building events for women trainees and faculty in the Department of Medicine. She has been a longstanding member of FWIM and founded the DOM moms and caregivers subcommittee for the organization in 2020, which helps support faculty and trainees with caregiving roles. FWIM focuses on supporting the professional development of the women trainees in the Department of Medicine through skill-building workshops, networking events, and the trainee leadership development program. She is excited to lean more into wellness, community partnerships, and policy/advocacy as part of this role.
As a core faculty member of the Department of Medicine, Dr. Patel actively participates in the education of residency physicians. She attends in the primary care resident clinic in the Center for Outpatient health, firm inpatient medicine teams, pediatric inpatient teams, pediatric emergency rooms/satellite hospitals, and newborn nursery. She has taught longitudinal classes for the medical students and continues to teach for the intern ambulatory curriculum for internal medicine. She serves on the IDEAS committee for the Department of Medicine, and the COMSE committee for the school of medicine. Her passions include gender equity, community engagement, health equity and global health and she looks forward to continue to build upon those.