Benjamin P. Sachs


Benjamin P. Sachs is a physician with health care management experience at the Harvard Medical School hospitals and the Tulane University Medical Center.

Education

Sachs was born in London, the son of Holocaust survivors. He graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London. He received a degree in Public Health from the University of Toronto and completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology and a fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston.
In 1980, Sachs was a visiting scientist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. In 1987 he completed the Program for Management Development at the Harvard Business School.
Sach's background is in clinical medicine, public health - health policy and finance - business administration with extensive executive experience in physician and hospital management.

Career

Harvard Medical School

In 1978, Sachs started work at the Harvard Medical School. He would eventually serve as chairman of the OB/GYN Department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Harvard Medical School. Sachs was also appointed as the Harold H. Rosenfield Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health
Sachs and Major Peter Nielsen, MD, led a team to transfer the concept of crew resource management to obstetrical care. Funded by the U.S. Department of Defense and the Harvard Risk Management Foundation, this was the first major research effort to evaluate team training in healthcare. This crew resource management program formed the basis for TeamSTEPPS, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's national program. TeamSTEPPS is used in hospital Ob/Gyn, surgical, emergency medicine and ICU care departments.
Sachs helped create a research team led by Dr. Ananth Karumanchi that discovered the probable cause of preeclampsia. The team's research was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Nature Medicine, and was described in The New Yorker.
Sachs was also served as president of the Beth Israel-Deaconess Physician Organization.

Tulane Medical School

Sachs joined Tulane Medical School in November 2007. The university had suffered $900 million in damage from Hurricane Katrina and lost a third of the medical school faculty. Sachs' objectives were to help Tulane recover and to fundamentally redesign the medical school and the New Orleans healthcare system. Sachs created a network of 68 clinics in the New Orleans area that by 2010 was treating approximately 200,000 people per year.
During Sachs' tenure, Tulane Medical School hired more leaders and increased the entrance exam scores of its students. It received the 2010 Association of American Medical Colleges Spencer Foreman Award for outstanding community service.
Sachs served at Tulane for six years as Senior Vice President, dean of the Medical School and the James R. Doty Distinguished Professor and Chair. Sachs retired from Tulane in 2014.

Current

Currently Sachs is a senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School - Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a senior director of Strategy Implemented, a healthcare consulting company
In June 2014, Sachs was appointed the interim dean of the new School of Medicine being developed by the University of the Virgin Islands in St. Croix. Sachs is helping UVISOM become the first English-speaking medical school Caribbean region that is Liaison Committee on Medical Education accredited.

Personal life

Sachs has two sons.
Sachs has helped raise money for women's and children's health centers in the Philippines, Armenia, and Ukraine. The health center in Dnipropetrovsk in Ukraine provides free care to 20,000 women and children each year.

Selected works

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/benjamin.sachs.2/bibliography/48271523/public/?sort=date&direction=ascending