Sara Singer, PhD, MBA

Sara Singer, PhD, MBA

Sara J. Singer, M.B.A., Ph.D., is a Professor of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Professor by courtesy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Adjunct Professor of Health Care Management and Policy at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. At Stanford, she is affiliated faculty with the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Center for Health Policy/Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Center for Innovation in Global Health, and Clinical Excellent Research Center. From 2012-2017, she served as Implementation Research Director for the Safe Surgery 2015 initiative. Her research in the field of health care management and policy focuses on how organizational leadership and culture impact efforts to implement health delivery innovations, integrate patient care, mitigate social determinants that undermine health; and improve safety and reliability of health care organizations. A key feature of this research is the development of survey instruments that measure provider and patient perspectives on key interpersonal and organizational factors, enabling benchmarking, rapid and reliable feedback about the effectiveness and comparative effectiveness of delivery system innovations, and broader dissemination of more successful interventions. Dr. Singer has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles on healthcare management, health policy, and health system reform. She has received numerous awards for publications and teaching; she also received the 2013 Avedis Donabedian Healthcare Quality Award from the American Public Health Association and shared the 2013 Lewis W. Blackman Patient Safety Champion Award Recipient, awarded to the Safe Surgery: South Carolina program.