Dr. Lee Sanders is a practicing general pediatrician and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Miami.
Dr. Sanders graduated Harvard College with a degree in the history of science, and he completed his medical school and residency training at Stanford University. In 2000, he completed a research fellowship in general pediatrics at Stanford, UCSF and UC Berkeley, which included a masters in public health and epidemiology.
As a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Physician Scholar for the past 4 years, Dr. Sanders research has focused on the role of child and parent health literacy in addressing child health disparities. He is most interested in community-based and health-system reforms to promote health and improve care, with specific emphasis on obesity prevention, injury prevention, and children with special healthcare needs. He is currently PI on several research protocols, including a study to develop a new tool to measure parent health literacy, a controlled trial of a child-care-center-based program to improve child health promotion messages; and a statewide study of the ethics of newborn screening in a low-literacy population.
On a national level, his scholarly efforts have been recognized in peer-reviewed publications in the areas of medical ethics, community-based research, advocacy training, obesity prevention, and health literacy. He serves on several national advisory boards, including the Academic Pediatric Association and the Health Literacy Program Advisory Committee for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
Dr. Sanders’ research and advocacy work extends to many community-based organizations, including child-care centers, the WIC program, Healthy Start, The Children’s Trust, out-of-school programs, family literacy programs, and community health agencies. Dr. Sanders serves as Assistant Medical Director for the Miami-Dade County office of Children’s Medical Services, a state-funded agency that oversees universal newborn screening and coordinates care for more than 5000 children with complex health needs. Dr. Sanders also serves as Medical Director for Reach Out and Read Florida, an evidence-based program that provides children’s books and early literacy promotion to more than 160,000 underserved children through more than 170 medical clinics statewide.
At the University of Miami, Dr. Sanders has helped coordinate pediatric resident advocacy training and the conduct of more than 24 community-based, participatory research partnerships for the Pediatric Department’s AAP-funded Community Pediatrics Training Initiative. He also serves as Chair of the Pediatric Housestaff Education Committee and as Co-director of the Jay Weiss Center Medical Student Pathway in Social Medicine.
Most importantly, however, Dr. Sanders lives with and works for the 3 women in his life: his wife Pip, a marketing consultant, and his two daughters -- Jenna age 7 years and Zoe age 4 -- who constantly remind him to read and to listen. |
