I'm Farnam Mohebi, an MD-MPH graduate, a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business (Management, Macro), and a researcher in Radiation Oncology at UCSF. Before my doctoral studies, I worked as a public health researcher and a family physician in outpatient and inpatient settings.

Drawing on organizational theory, sociology of professions, medical sociology, and STS, I study professionals through technology — what it reveals about expertise, status, identity, and expert decision-making. Most technologies are judged by what they do; I'm more interested in what they expose. A profession's expertise, authority, and trust mostly work invisibly, taken for granted until something disturbs them. I treat each encounter with technology as a natural experiment on the profession around it.

With an MD-MPH background and training in sociology of organizations and science and technology studies, I've moved from quantitative work to primarily qualitative, ethnographic methods — though I still draw on my quantitative training to test the hypotheses and consequences that emerge from the fieldwork.

Please find my most recent CV here.

Keywords: Organization theory / Professions / Technology / AI and work / Ethnography / Healthcare