Grace Farris, M.D.

Grace Farris, M.D., is a hospitalist and core faculty member of the Internal Medicine Residency program at Dell Medical School, Dell Seton Medical Center and Seton Medical Center. Her academic interests include the use of comics in health care, visual storytelling and narrative medicine.

Farris is the author of the Annal’s of Internal Medicine’s monthly graphic medicine column “Dr. Mom,” as well as the book Mom Milestones: The TRUE story of the First Seven Years (Workman, 2022). She has contributed comics and graphic narratives to many publications, including NPR, the New York Times and Vogue, as well as a number of medical journals. She speaks internationally about the use of comics in health care (graphic medicine), motherhood in medicine and finding renewal through creative practice.

Prior to joining Dell Med, Farris was chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine at Mount Sinai West Hospital and associate professor of medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, New York.

Farris received her medical degree from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, and she completed her residency training in internal medicine Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. She completed the Harvard Medical School Fellowship in Bioethics in 2016 and was a clinical instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School from 2011-2016.