Kenneth Sands, MD, MPH

Kenneth Sands, MD, MPH, is the senior vice president of Health Care Quality and director of the Silverman Institute for Health Care Quality and Safety at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He is also an associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He received his medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School and a master’s degree in Public Health from Harvard. He joined the Infectious Disease division at Beth Israel Hospital in 1993 and was the hospital epidemiologist there until 1999 when he assumed his current role.

Dr. Sands has a continued research interest in patient safety and complications of hospitalization, with particular interest in surveillance methodologies for nosocomial infections. More recent interests have been the detection and prevention of noninfectious healthcare-related adverse events, healthcare systems improvement, and performance improvement education of physician trainees.