John Sather

John Sather, MD, is an Associate Professor at the Yale School of Medicine and Director of Patient Safety and Quality in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He specializes in critical illness management and has developed clinical guidelines for critically ill patients at Yale-New Haven Health System. His research focuses on improving critical care delivery, reducing diagnostic errors, and optimizing transitions in care. He leads a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation-funded study on diagnostic performance in Pulmonary Embolism and collaborates on AHRQ-funded patient safety initiatives.

Education: MD from Jefferson Medical College (1997), residency and fellowship in Emergency Medicine/Surgical Critical Care at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Research Interests: Includes septic shock resuscitation protocols, retrograde endovascular balloon occlusion in cardiac arrest, and clinical reasoning education. He is principal investigator on trials like the Crystalloid Liberal or Vasopressors Early Resuscitation in Sepsis (CLOVERS) study.

Education Contributions: Core faculty in clinical reasoning curriculum, leads Critical Care Area of Concentration for emergency medicine residents, and teaches weekly EM clerkship seminars.

Grants & Awards: Recipient of Diagnostic Excellence Initiative Award (Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation). Involved in AHRQ-funded Patient Safety Learning Lab project for intracranial hemorrhage transfers.

Service: Member of Yale School of Medicine Admissions Committee and Yale-New Haven Hospital Mortality Review Committee.