Background
Doctor Sands was born in 1962.
Doctor Sands was born in 1962.
In 2009 Health Leaders magazine named him to its annual "20 People Who Make Healthcare Better". At age 5½ he had his first public appearance, as a performing magician. He has earned degrees from Brown University, Ohio State College of Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health, and trained at Boston City Hospital and Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital (now Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center).
He worked for six years as chief medical informatics officer at Cisco, where he provided both internal and external health Information Technology leadership and helped key healthcare customers with business and clinical transformation using Information Technology. His prior position was Chief Medical Officer for Zix Corporation, where he led work to establish leadership in secure e-mail and e-prescribing.
William F. Ashe Award from the Department of Preventive Medicine for work with computers as systems operator of Black Bag II Bulletin Board System, a computerized medical information system, Ohio State University College of Medicine (1988). President's Award, American Medical Informatics Association (1998). 2001 Technical Paper of the Year, Health Information Management Systems Society, for paper about PatientSite (2002). Information Technology Innovator Award from Healthcare Informatics magazine (a McGraw-Hill publication) (2003). 20 People Who Make Healthcare Better - Health Leaders magazine, 2009.
Doctor Sands has been elected to fellowship in both the American College of Physicians and the American College of Medical Informatics, and is a founder and co-chair of the Society for Participatory Medicine.
