Danny Sands
Daniel Zev Sands, M.D., M.P.H., is a primary care physician, specialist in medical informatics, and co-founder of the Society for Participatory Medicine, of which he is the Board Chair.Biography
Dr. Sands was born in 1962. 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.
He has spent more than ten years at Beth Israel Deaconess, where he developed and implemented numerous innovative systems to improve clinical care delivery and patient engagement, including clinical decision support systems, an electronic health record, and , one of the nation’s first patient portals. He continues to practice there part-time as a primary physician.
He worked for six years as chief medical informatics officer at Cisco, where he provided both internal and external health IT leadership and helped key healthcare customers with business and clinical transformation using IT. His prior position was Chief Medical Officer for Zix Corporation, where he led work to establish leadership in secure e-mail and e-prescribing.Awards and honors
Dr. 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.Publications
, Journal of Participatory Medicine, 5/16/2013
