Fatuma Barqadle MD, MAcM  is a Pediatric Hospitalist at INOVA L.J Murphy Children's Hospital (INOVA) in Northern Virginia and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She received her undergraduate degree from George Mason University and her medical degree from Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia. She completed her pediatric residency at INOVA and went on to complete her pediatric hospital medicine (PHM) fellowship at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles and her Master’s of Academic Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC). During her fellowship, she also obtained a certificate of Leadership in Healthcare. Her scholarly interests are in complex and chronic care, professional development, leadership training and medical education. She is passionate about the intersection of health and humanities and is on the Board of Directors for the Bluebird Way Foundation, a nonprofit organization committed to arts, humanities, storytelling and narrative medicine. She is involved in different national organizations and projects  and also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Somali American Medical Association and is the past-chair for the AAP PHM Fellows Annual Conference.