Nicole Farmer, MD is staff scientist and attending physician at the National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center (NIH CC). She is the acting head of the Dietary Behaviors and Biopsychosocial Health Section within the Translational Biobehavioral and Health Disparities Department at the NIH CC. Dr. Farmer’s research focus may be categorized into three major areas: psychosocial outcomes of health behaviors, the role of cooking interventions on dietary behaviors and cardiovascular outcomes, and mechanisms of health disparities. Dr. Farmer is an alumnus of Howard University College of Medicine, received her internal medicine training from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, and held a prior appointment at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. She has completed fellowship-level training in Integrative Medicine from the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona and Duke University Integrative Medicine. In 2021, Dr. Farmer was named a Harvard Macy Fellow for her work on incorporating humanities into culinary medicine education and dietary behavior research. She was named a recipient of the 2020 William G. Coleman Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Innovation Award from the NIH’s National Institute of Minority and Health Disparity for her work in exploring microbiome-related dietary metabolites in cardiovascular disease health disparities. (Bethesda, MD)