University of Michigan and Ann Arbor VA Medical Center
Department of Internal Medicine
300 NIB, Room 7E08, SPC 5429, Campus Box 0429
Ann Arbor
MIUSA
48109
Biographical Sketch: Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH, a Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan, is the Director of the VA/University of Michigan Patient Safety Enhancement Program and the Associate Chief of Medicine at the Ann Arbor VA Medical Center. His research focuses on enhancing patient safety by preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infection and translating research findings into practice. He has authored approximately 175 peer-reviewed papers with over 60 appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, or the Annals of Internal Medicine. His research is currently funded through extramural grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs. He is a Special Correspondent to the New England Journal of Medicine, an editorial board member of the Annals of Internal Medicine, and an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI).
He received his Medical Doctorate from UCLA, completed a medical residency and chief residency at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), and obtained a Masters in Public Health (as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar) from the University of Washington in Seattle. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Florence during the 2007-2008 academic year where he studied diffusion of innovation, and has been a visiting professor at over 30 universities and hospitals in the United States, Europe, and Japan.