Stumbar, Sarah
- Associate Professor, Humanities, Health and Society , Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine

Overview
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Sarah Eisenstein Stumbar, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Family and Community Medicine in the Department of Humanities, Health, and Society. Since joining Florida International University’s faculty in August 2015, Dr. Stumbar has focused on teaching medical students at all stages of their training; and providing medical care--including expanded access to family planning services--to the underserved communities of Opa Locka and Miami Gardens through the Green Family Foundation Neighborhood Health Education program (NeighborhoodHELP™). She develops innovative strategies to teach a holistic, integrated approach to primary care.
With a deeply engrained commitment to social justice and reproductive health care, Dr. Stumbar went into medicine with the belief that compassionate and equitable health care can change not only lives but also entire communities. She received her BA in the History of Medicine from Yale University; an MPH in Sexuality and Health from Columbia University; and her MD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In 2015, Dr. Stumbar completed her residency training in Social and Family Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, with an interest in reproductive health care in the primary care setting.
Dr. Stumbar has advocated for the rights of girls at the United Nations; for increased funding for global HIV programs on Capitol Hill; and for single-payer healthcare at the New York State Assembly. Dr. Stumbar has published multiple narrative essays and papers about her experiences and won numerous awards for her commitment to community health and humanistic medicine.
Scholarly & Creative Works
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2022Writing Collaboratively in Medical EducationFull Text via DOI: 10.1007/s40670-022-01503-2 Web of Science: 000746292300001
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2021Curricular Recommendations for a National Family Medicine Subinternship: A Qualitative Analysis From Multiple StakeholdersFull Text via DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2021.567515 Web of Science: 000740785700002
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2021Diet-Related Chronic Diseases Among a Multi-Ethnic Group of Uninsured AdultsFull Text via DOI: 10.1093/cdn/nzab035_003
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2020Developing the Community Engaged Physician: Medical Students Reflect on a Household Visit CurriculumFull Text via DOI: 10.7759/cureus.11593 Web of Science: 000591324100011
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2020Family Medicine Clerkship Teaching About Contraception: Meeting a NeedFull Text via DOI: 10.7759/cureus.10394 Web of Science: 000568388600023
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2020Narrative Medicine Rounds: Promoting Student Well-Being during the Third Year of Medical SchoolFull Text via DOI: 10.14423/SMJ.0000000000001131 Web of Science: 000559755300005
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2020Moving Toward a Standardized National Family Medicine Subinternship Curriculum: Results From a CERA Clerkship Directors SurveyFull Text via DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2020.209444 Web of Science: 000576775300011
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2020Developing and Implementing Curricular Objectives for Sexual Health in Undergraduate Medical Education: A Practical ApproachFull Text via DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002891 Web of Science: 000504094500024
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2019Pilot Study of a Free Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Program on a Mobile Health Center in Miami Dade County, FloridaFull Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10903-019-00937-y Web of Science: 000490892200001
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2019Impact of the Introduction of the Clinical Science Mastery Series on Family Medicine NBME Subject Examination PerformanceFull Text via DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2019.253577 Web of Science: 000484762800011
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2019Cervical Cancer and Its Precursors: A Preventative Approach to Screening, Diagnosis, and ManagementFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.pop.2018.10.011 Web of Science: 000456950100011
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2019Effect of Repeat Examination on Family Medicine NBME Subject Scores.Full Text via DOI: 10.22454/primer.2019.691584
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2018A Prenatal Standardized Patient Experience for Medical Students on Their Family Medicine ClerkshipFull Text via DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2018.826159 Web of Science: 000432173700009
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2012Attitudes and Preferences Toward the Provision of Medication Abortion in an Urban Academic Internal Medicine PracticeFull Text via DOI: 10.1007/s11606-011-1956-6 Web of Science: 000304402900008
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Conference
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Letter
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2021Narrative Medicine in the Time of Pandemics: A Brief Course for Third-Year Medical Students. 817-817.Full Text via DOI: 10.14423/SMJ.0000000000001322 Web of Science: 000718436500016
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2014Doctor turns patient.. 30-31.
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Other Scholarly Work
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2022Six-Word Stories Offer a New Opportunity for Medical Students' Reflection.. 8.Full Text via DOI: 10.22454/primer.2022.644399
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2021Present/Lost. 226-226.Full Text via DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2021.781300 Web of Science: 000625868100013
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2020Giving Rest: A Novel Treatment Plan. 671-671.Full Text via DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2020.133206 Web of Science: 000576777500014
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2019Goodbye: an immigration story. E261-E262.Full Text via DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.180933 Web of Science: 000460790600004
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2018The Responsibility of Family Physicians to Our Transgender Patients. 635-635.Web of Science: 000452683900006
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2017Addressing the Needs of LGBT Patients. 286-286.Web of Science: 000395494600001
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2017Dear Juan/From Your Inconsequential Doctor. 232-233.Web of Science: 000397418400012
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Research
principal investigator on
- Developing Medical Student Leaders in the Underserved Community awarded by ALPHA OMEGA ALPHA 2019 - 2022
Contact
full name
- Sarah Stumbar
Identifiers
ORCID iD
- https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3238-1226 (confirmed)
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