Education
PhD in Management of Organizations, UC Berkeley (Haas School of Business)
Subjects
Organizational Studies, Expert Work, AI and Technology, Science and Technology Studies, Sociology of Organizations
Achievements
MD and MPH from Tehran University of Medical Sciences (GPA 3.9/4.0 and 4.0/4.0); MBA from UC Berkeley Haas (GPA 3.9/4.0); Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (Haas, 2024); UC Berkeley Graduate Fellowship; MIT Presidential Award (2021, declined); over 30 peer-reviewed publications in medicine and public health; research grants totaling over USD 29,000
About
Farnam is a physician-turned-organizational scholar completing her PhD at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, with a research home in radiation oncology at UCSF. Trained as a family physician, she now studies how AI and new technologies such as social media reshape expert work and reveal the hidden dimensions of professional judgment, pairing long-term ethnographic fieldwork with large-scale analysis of clinical data.
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