About
Dr. Lisa Sanders is a Professor of Medicine (General Medicine) at Yale School of Medicine and Medical Director of Yale's Long COVID Multidisciplinary Care Center. She is also Director of the Writers Workshop and a renowned author/columnist. Her career spans medicine, journalism, and academia, with a focus on diagnostic processes, clinical decision-making, and health communication.
Education: BA in English (College of William and Mary, 1979), MD (Yale School of Medicine, 1997). Chief Residency at Yale School of Medicine (2001). Prior to medicine, she was an Emmy Award-winning journalist at CBS News.
Research interests include diagnostic errors, clinical reasoning, and the intersection of medicine with media. She writes the Diagnosis column for the New York Times Magazine, inspiring the TV show House, M.D. Her books include Every Patient Tells a Story (2009) and Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries (2019).
Awards: John P. McGovern MD Award (2016, 2020), Emmy Award (1989), Alfred I. duPont Award (1988), and Black Pearl Written Media Award (2020).
She leads initiatives like the Long COVID Consultation Clinic and the Long COVID Dispatches from the Front Lines blog, focusing on post-acute infection syndromes and patient advocacy.
