Dr. Farhana Rob

Biography

Dr. Farhana Rob is a board-certified, fellowship-trained family medicine doctor at Stanford Health Care and a clinical assistant professor at the Department of Medicine, Primary Care Population Health at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Rob provides personalized and compassionate primary care to patients ranging from newborns to older adults. She specializes in women’s health and maternity care, particularly in managing conditions such as heavy menstrual bleeding, pregnancy-induced hypertension, and gestational diabetes. Dr. Rob has expertise in birth control options and discusses these particularly with adolescents and postpartum mothers. She also addresses minor injuries and musculoskeletal issues, offering therapies such as laceration repair, tendon and joint injections, and trigger point injections. Emphasizing preventive care and early diagnosis, Dr. Rob is an advocate for routine diagnostic screenings and strives to empower her patients to become active participants in their health care. She is open to discussing alternative and natural treatments that support holistic healing. Passionate about education, Dr. Rob enjoys teaching and mentoring medical students and residents throughout their careers. Her scholarly work includes published research on heart failure in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, and she has shared her findings on using ultrasound for estimating birthweight at the American Academy of Family Physicians Family-Centered Pregnancy Care Conference. Additionally, Dr. Rob has contributed to the 5-Minute Clinical Consult, a physician guidebook focusing on evidence-based medicine.

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