Amy Farber, Ph.D.

Amy Farber, PhD lives in Cambridge, MA with her husband, Michael Nurok, MD, PhD, a cardio-thoracic anesthesiologist specializing in complicated heart and lung operations including transplants at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston. Amy is trained as a social scientist focused on the study of law, medicine and society. She received her BA in political science from U.C. Berkeley and her PhD from Harvard University. She has completed a Fellowship in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School. She is currently an Instructor in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Farber’s PhD training involving the comparative study of physician s and medical decision-making within American and South African healthcare systems, w as sponsored by the NIH. Her research, training and political advocacy passion centered around alliance-building to address health disparities and access to basic healthcare for the poor and treatment for those with HIV/AIDS in the US and abroad in particular. Dr. Farber's interest in law and medicine led to her active membership on the Institutional Review Board of Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals in Boston.

Since her diagnosis with Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) in April 2005, with the strong support of scientists, colleagues, other patients, institutions, family and friends, Dr. Farber founded, and is now the Executive Director of, the LAM Treatment Alliance, a non-profit organization exclusively dedicated to fast-tracking LAM treatment research by fostering and funding collaborative high-impact LAM treatment research. Prior to founding LTA Dr. Farber and her family raised over $200,000 for the LAM Foundation. Since August 2006, she has raised over a million dollars dedicated to treatment research.