Dr. Sahai currently serves as Professor and Division Chief, General
Medicine, at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Prior to moving to UTMB in February 2020, he
was on the faculty of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. His undergraduate education was at Tulane
University, followed by medical school at the University of Texas Medical
Branch at Galveston. He completed
residency in Internal Medicine & Pediatrics at the University of Texas
Medical School at Houston. He is board
certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.
He has also completed a board certification in Medical Quality. He has
also completed a graduate certificate in Health Care Management from Rice
University School of Business, and in the fall of 2019 attended the Leadership
Development for Physicians in Academic Health Centers course at the Harvard
T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is a Fellow of the American College of
Physicians and a Senior Fellow of the Society of Hospital Medicine. In 2022, he was elected to the UTMB Academy
of Master Clinicians and most recently completed the ACP Certificate in
Physician Leadership.
Since joining UTMB, he has been instrumental in leading the
COVID-19 pandemic response and developing an academic medicine division. Prior
to joining UTMB, he served as the Chief of the Section of Consultative Medicine
in the Department of General Internal Medicine at MD Anderson. He also was part of the leadership team of
the Perioperative Evaluation & Management (POEM) Center at MD Anderson. Prior to creation of POEM, he was the Medical
Director of the Internal Medicine Perioperative Assessment Center (IMPAC) from
2004 to 2018. Dr. Sahai developed the
first formal perioperative medicine program at the comprehensive cancer center
in the United States. In the fall of
2018, the IMPAC Center merged with the Anesthesia Assessment Center to form the
POEM Center. Additionally, he previously
served as the Medical Director of the Clinical Decision Unit for patients
placed in Observation status in the hospital and the Medical Director of the
Internal Medicine Center – Main at MD Anderson.
He is on the Board of Governors for the Society of Perioperative
Assessment and Quality Improvement (SPAQI).
He is active in the Society of Hospital Medicine, Society of General
Internal Medicine, and the American College of Physicians. He is on the
national board of the South Asian Medical Student Association (SAMSA). Dr.
Sahai is an advocate for patients being a partner in their healthcare and is
recognized internationally as an expert in the perioperative care of the cancer
patient. He can be found on twitter:
@drsunilksahai
A little about myself and my background. I was born in Cleveland, Ohio and lived all over the place. For all practical purposes, Houston has been my hometown since 1981. I went to two high schools, starting at Alief Elsik in Southwest Houston and graduated from Virgil I. Grissom High School in Huntsville, Alabama.
I went to undergrad at Tulane University in New Orleans, followed by medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. I completed a Med/Peds residency from UT Health Science Center in Houston. After residency, I worked as an EC doc at Harris Health LBJ Hospital and Memorial Hermann, covering both the Pediatric and Adult ECs.
I eventually joined the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2004 to develop and run the world's very first dedicated perioperative medicine program at a comprehensive cancer center.
A write up about me in the MD Anderson magazine, Conquest. If the link, does not work, see page 10 of the archived PDF here.
As of February 2020, I have come home to the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston to assume the role of Division Chief of General Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine.
My ORCID Page is here: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2145-4995
My Infuuent Page is here: https://mdanderson.influuent.utsystem.edu/en/persons/sunil-k-sahai/publications/
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