Bio

Dr. Sands currently serves as the Clinical Section Chief of Palliative Care at Stanford University, where she directly supervises 13 physicians and oversees the inpatient and outpatient clinical programs at Stanford Health Care. She graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in 2001 with a BA in Chemistry. She then attended Midwestern University, Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine from 2002-2006. She completed a residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance, a public teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. She went on to complete her Hospice and Palliative Medicine (HPM) fellowship at the Harvard combined program at Massachusetts General Hospital/Dana Farber Cancer Institute in 2011. She spent 8 years at the University of Pittsburgh where she served as core teaching faculty and the HPM Fellowship Program Director. Since her recruitment to Stanford, her focus has been on programmatic expansion of clinical Palliative Care services across healthcare settings and throughout the trajectory of the serious illness experience. This has included recruitment of dually boarded faculty, development of an Emergency Palliative Care program, and many other new and innovative initiatives.

Clinical Focus

  • Internal Medicine

Academic Appointments

Administrative Appointments

  • Clinical Section Chief, Palliative Care (2022 - Present)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

  • Development Committee, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (2024 - Present)

Professional Education

  • Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Medicine (2012)
  • Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital Palliative Care Fellowship (2011) MA
  • Residency: Cambridge Health Alliance Internal Medicine Residency (2010) MA
  • Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine (2009)
  • Medical Education: Midwestern University Downers Grove Office of the Registrar (2006) IL
  • Fellowship, MGH/DFCI, Hospice and Palliative Medicine (2011)
  • Chief Residency, Cambridge Health Alliance, Internal Medicine (2010)
  • Residency, Cambridge Health Alliance, Internal Medicine (2009)
  • DO, Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, Medicine (2006)

Contact

  • Academic
    sandsr@stanford.edu
    University - Academic staff Department: Med/Primary Care and Population Health Position: Clinical Associate Professor
  • Clinical (Primary)  Stanford Palliative Medicine 300 Pasteur Dr Rm HC005 MC 5277 Stanford, CA 94305 (650) 723-0927 (fax)

Additional Clinical Info

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 5411