Associate Professor of Medicine, General Internal Medicine
Fatima Z. Syed, MD, MSc, FACP is an internist at Duke General Internal Medicine and an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine. She serves as a Director for the Primary Care Leadership Track at Duke School of Medicine. She transitioned into medicine through social policy, having an MSc in Comparative Social Policy from University of Oxford before attending Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. Dr. Syed was the first primary care resident at Thomas Jefferson University where she trained in both internal medicine and endocrinology. Dr. Syed returned to her true passion, primary care and education, in 2019, when she joined as faculty at Duke. Her clinical interests include general internal medicine with a focus on type 2 diabetes. In education, she precepts residents, teaches first year didactics, and is involved with LEAD Leadership Certificate Program and the course, Cultural Determinants of Health and Health Diversity (CDHD).