Farah N Hussain, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (Hospital Medicine)
Attending Physician, Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Attending Physician , Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Facilitator, OB-GYN Residency Narrative Professionalism Series, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Co-Course Director, R&R: Resilience and Reflection Curriculum, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Director of Planetary Health, Perelman School of Medicine
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department: Medicine
Contact information
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce Street
5 Maloney
Philadelphia, PA 19104
3400 Spruce Street
5 Maloney
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
BA (Biology)
Swarthmore College, 2009.
MD
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, 2013.
Permanent linkBA (Biology)
Swarthmore College, 2009.
MD
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, 2013.
Selected Publications
Isha Thapar and Farah Hussain: Initial Integration of Climate and Health Curricula into Medical School Pre-Clinical Coursework. Medical Students for a Sustainable Future Conference 2 2026 Notes: Poster.Isha Thapar and Farah Hussain: Integration of Climate and Health Curricula into Medical School PreClinical Coursework. NEGEA Annual Conference 3 2026 Notes: Poster.
Genevieve S. Silva, MD MBA,1* Jeromy W. Gotschall, MD,1* Fengling Hu, PhD,1,2 Elizabeth Whidden, BS,1 Phoebe Cunningham, BS,1 Jacob Niculcea, BS,1 Cody Chapman, BS,3 Prateek V. Sharma, BS,1 Greg Evans, MPP,4 Farah Hussain, MD,5 Zelma C. Chiesa Fuxench, MD MSCE,6 Kirstin Knox, MD PhD,5 Misha Rosenbach, MD6: An Educational Intervention to Reduce Regulated Medical Waste: The Inpatient Medicine & Outpatient Dermatology Settings. International Journal of Dermatology 2 2025.
Whidden E, Cunningham P, Campanile J, Hussain F.: Integrating Climate Health Education into Medical Curriculum through PlanetaryRx: A Comprehensive Online Resource. Abstracts from the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine. J GEN INTERN MED. July 2025; 40(10):497. Abstracts from the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine. J GEN INTERN MED. 7 2025.
Phoebe Cunningham, Elizabeth Whidden, Jessica Campanile, Farah Hussain: Integrating Climate Change into Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) from a Comprehensive Elective to an Interactive Online Curriculum. AAMC Annual Meeting 2025 11 2025.
Elizabeth Whidden, Phoebe Cunningham, Jessica Campanile, Farah Hussain: PlanetaryRx: Development of a Climate Health Interactive Online Curriculum for UME Students (Poster). SGIM Annual Meeting 2025 5 2025.
Shanelle B. Mendes, K. Charlotte Lee, Erik X. Tan, Jeremy M. Jones, Keith W. Hamilton, Flint Y. Wang, Andrew W. Maier, Farah N. Hussain, Peter Labbe, Margot E. Cohen : Evaluation of a Novel Internal Medicine Clerkship High Value Care Curriculum using Patient Bills DOM Medicine Research Day Poster June 2024.
Harleen Marwah, Isha Thapar, Mark McShane, Genevieve S Silva, Harrison Goodall, Noreena Lewis, Paul Devine Bottone, Farah Hussain: A Longitudinal Pediatric Residency Climate Justice Curriculum. Journal of Graduate Medical Education 12 2024.
Michelle Silver, Farah Hussain: A Resident Narrative Medicine Curriculum to Promote Profession Identity Development: A Story-Based Intervention Grounded in Narrative Learning Theory. MedEdPortal 10 2024.
CL Frost, EX Tan, JM Jones, SB Mendes, KW Hamilton, FY Wang, AW Maier, FN Hussain, P Labbe, ME Cohen : “Sticker Shock”: Success of a Novel High Value Care (HVC) Curriculum Using Actual Patient Bills AAMC Poster Session 2024.