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Lee Sanders

Associate Professor of Peediatrics and, by Courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health

Organization: Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Education: MD, MPH
Email: leesanders@stanford.edu

Dr. Lee Sanders is a general pediatrician and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he is Chief of the Division of General Pediatrics. He holds joint appointments in the Department of Health Policy, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He teaches in the Human Biology Program and at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (Stanford d.School).

Dr. Sanders is a national expert in the science of health literacy, which applies a literacy lens to advancing maternal and child health equity. He directs the Stanford Health Literacy Lab, which aims to address child disparities in health and educational, by redesigning primary-care with youth and families.