Suzanne Barakat, MD
Volunteer Assistant Clinical Professor
Family Community Medicine
School of Medicine

suzanne.barakat@ucsf.edu

Notable media interviews / features: Anderson Cooper, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The New Yorker, NPR, Reveal, ABC Nightline, AJ+, Al-Jazeera, The SF Chronicle, UCSF Profile, UCSF Magazine, “36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime” Documentary. (2015 - 2024)

Notable Presentations:

NORTH AMERICA

2016 – TED Talk | "Islamophobia killed my brother. Let's end the hate." 2015 – The Parliament of the World's Religions | Plenary Keynote | Salt Lake City, UT 2016 – The White House | Roundtable discussion with President Barack Obama | Baltimore, MD 2017 – The Carter Center | Countering Islamophobia Symposium | Participant and Panelist | Atlanta, GA 2018 – Women in the World Summit | Speaker | New York City 2018 – Society of Teachers for Family Medicine (STFM) | National Conference | Plenary Keynote "Allyship in Times of Adversity" | Washington, DC 2018 – Exponent Philanthropy | National Conference | Plenary Keynote "From Biases to Strength" | Philadelphia, PA 2020 – Doctors for America Webinar: "Health Professionals Facing Racism." | Virtual 2021 – Wingate University | Keynote & Civil Discourse Townhall | North Carolina (2017, 2021) 2021 – UNC School of Dentistry | DEAH DAY (Dedicating Efforts And Honoring Deah And Yusor) Community Service Keynote (2015, 2017, 2021) 2022 – North American Refugee Health Conference | Forensic Evaluation of Asylum Seekers Training | Lecture: "Best Practices for Writing Effective Medical-Legal Affidavits, Testifying in Court, and Collaborating with Attorneys" | Cleveland, OH 2023 – Asylum Medicine Colloquium | “Funding Landscape in Asylum Medicine” | Yale University, New Haven, CT 2023 – The White House | Roundtable discussion with Second Gentleman Douglass Emhoff on Hate & Islamophobia | Washington, DC 2023 – North American Refugee Health Conference | Keynote: Journey to Human Rights Work with Refugees and Asylum Seekers | Calgary, Canada 2023 – The White House | Closed meeting with President Joseph Biden regarding Gaza | Washington, DC 2023 – DOC NYC Documentary Film Festival | World Premiere of “36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime” feature and Q&A | NYC, NY 2024 – Google | DEI Global Inclusion Program | Fireside Chat: Countering Islamophobia | Mountain View, CA

REGIONAL

2015 – UCSF Grand Rounds | "Challenging Islamophobia" | San Francisco, CA 2016 – UCSF Campus-wide Teach-In | "Injustice and Health" | Panelist | San Francisco, CA 2017 – UCSF Grand Rounds | "Challenging Islamophobia" | San Francisco, CA 2017 – Mayor Edwin Lee “Equity and Immigrant Services Launch” | Speaker | San Francisco, CA 2017 – The City of San Francisco | Roundtable discussion with Mayor Edwin Lee | City Hall, San Francisco, CA 2017 – Mayor Edwin Lee's “Unite Against Hate” Rally | Speaker | City Hall, San Francisco, CA 2017 – Van Jones #LoveArmy Revival Event | Keynote | San Francisco, CA 2017 – California Academy of Family Physicians | Annual Summit | Keynote | Los Angeles, CA 2019 – Kaiser Richmond | Grand Rounds | "Allyship and Accountability in the Workplace" | Richmond, CA 2019 – Kaiser Oakland | Grand Rounds | "Allyship and Accountability in the Workplace" | Oakland, CA 2019 – Women's March San Francisco Rally | Speaker | San Francisco, CA 2021 – UCSF Health and Human Rights Initiative | "Passage, from Kabul to the Bay" webinar | Moderator | San Francisco, CA 2022 – Southern California Permanente Medical Group | Wellness Conference | Plenary Keynote | San Diego, CA 2022 – Immigrant Advocates, Faith Leaders, Doctors Rally to End Title 42 Expulsions | Speaker | City Hall, San Francisco, CA 2022 – UCSF Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia Works In Progress Lecture | Refugee and Asylee Health | San Francisco, CA 2023 – UCSF Town Hall | Devastation, Impact and Institutional Responsibility re the Turkey / Syria Earthquakes | San Francisco, CA

FORMAL TEACHING

2016 – UC Berkeley | Islamophobia and Constructing Otherness Course AAS 132 | Lecture: “Understanding & Countering Islamophobia” 2017 – UCSF | UCSF GME Global Health Pathway GH 103 | Clinical Scholars Lecture: "Implicit Bias and Decolonizing Global Health" (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) 2018 – UCSF | Family and Community Medicine | R3 Practice Management Conference | Per Diem, Nonprofit, & Advocacy work in Medicine (2018, 2019) 2019 – UC Berkeley School of Law | Our Three Winners Social Inclusion Policy Fellowship | Lecture & Workshop: “The Science and Impact of Bias” 2020 – UCSF | UCSF School of Medicine MS1 Elective | Human Rights Clinic Asylum Elective | Lecturer (2020, 2021, 2022) 2021 – UCSF | Creation and development of the Clinical Human Rights Fellowship Track within the HEAL (Health Equity and Leadership) Fellowship (2021, 2022) 2021 – UCSF | Family and Community Medicine | Family Medicine Inpatient Services Didactics and Precepting (2021, 2022) 2021 – UCSF | Family and Community Medicine and Obstetrics | Labor and Delivery Didactics and Precepting (2021, 2022) 2021 – UC Riverside School of Medicine | How to Heal Medical Student Conference | Lecture | Riverside, CA 2022 – UCSF | Family and Community Medicine | R1 Didactics Conference Lecture: Refugee and Asylee Health 2022 – UCSF | Institute for Global Health Sciences Masters Course 202B: Health, the Environment, and Non-Communicable Disease course | Refugee Health Seminar Lecture: "Who is a refugee and what does their journey look?" (2022, 2023) 2023 – Duke University | Sanford School of Public Policy | Lecture: “Hate Crimes & Islamophobia” | Durham, NC 2024 – UC Berkeley | De-Constructing Islamophobia Course AAS 132 | Screening of “36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime” followed by Q&A on hate and Islamophobia

Awards

  • Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition, UCSF Health & Human Rights Initiative, Congresswoman and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 2022
  • Vera Haile Champion of Justice Immigrant Leadership Award, UCSF Health & Human Rights Initiative, San Francisco Immigrant Rights Commission, 2022
  • Certificate of Honor, UCSF Health & Human Rights Initiative, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, 2022
  • Uniter Award, President Joseph Biden, The White House, 2022
  • Exceptional Volunteerism and University Service for Advancing Social Justice and Anti-Racism Work, UCSF School of Medicine Dean King Talmadge, 2021
  • UCSF Chancellor’s Award for Public Service: Thomas N. Burbridge Public Service Award, UCSF, 2016
  • GrandSLAM Champion, Castro Theatre, San Francisco, The Moth, 2015
  • Resident Teaching Award in OB/GYN, UCSF, 2014
  • UNC School of Medicine International Fellowship, UNC, 2013
  • UNC Eugene S. Mayer Community Honor Society for Community Service, UNC, 2011
  • Carolina Undergraduate Health Fellowship, UNC, 2008
  • UNC Clinical Laboratory Science Louise M. Ward Scholarship, UNC, 2008

Education & Training

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  • Residency Family & Community Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2017
  • MD University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2014
  • BS Clinical Laboratory Sciences University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2009

Interests

  • Global Health
  • Mental Health
  • Human Rights
  • Implicit Bias
  • Activism
  • Advocacy
  • Islamophobia
  • Torture
  • Trauma
  • Social Justice
  • Refugees
  • Public Policy
  • Asylum-seekers
  • Women's Health

Websites

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Videos

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Publications (13)

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