Sarah Eisenstein Stumbar, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine in the Department of Medical Education and Associate Dean for Student Affairs at Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, where she has worked since 2015. She was born to a feminist-activist-professor and socially committed lawyer in Ithaca, NY; where some of her earliest memories are boarding buses in the middle of the night to go to political rallies in Washington, DC.
She has advocated for the rights of girls at the United Nations; for increased funding for global HIV programs on Capitol Hill; and for single-payer healthcare at the New York State Assembly. With a deeply engrained commitment to social justice and reproductive health care, Dr. Stumbar went into medicine with the belief that compassionate and equitable health care can change not only lives but also entire communities. She provides primary care, including expanded family planning services, to uninsured patients via the NeighborhoodHELP mobile health centers and accompanies students on home visits in underserved Miami-Dade communities.
Among other responsibilities, she teaches Narrative Medicine across the FIU curriculum, is founding faculty advisor for the Student Faculty Collaborative Clinic, and faculty advisor for the medical humanities journal Eloquor. She received her BA in the History of Medicine from Yale University; an MPH in Sexuality and Health from Columbia University; and her MD from Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. In 2015, Dr. Stumbar completed her residency training in Social and Family Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY. She received the Tow Humanism in Medicine Award as a medical student in 2012 and as faculty in 2018 and 2024. A dedicated educator and advocate for community health and humanistic medicine, Dr. Stumbar has authored numerous narrative essays and scholarly papers, earning multiple awards for her work and teaching.