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Sanjay V. Desai, MD, MACP
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Vice Dean of Education and Mary Wallace Stanton Professor
Leading Organizational Change and Developing Future Physician and GME Leadership Skills
Wednesday, March 3, 2027 / 8:10 AM - 9:10 AM (Mountain)
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Sanjay V. Desai, MD, MACP
Sanjay Desai MD MACP is the Vice Dean of Education and Mary Wallace Stanton Professor for the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine overseeing all of its educational programming including the medical school, training programs, and continuing medical education, as well as the Masters, PhD, post-doctoral, online, and international programs.
For the last four and half years, he served as the Chief Academic Officer for the American Medical Association overseeing a large innovation portfolio with a focus on precision education using AI in medical education and working with a consortium of schools, health systems, and organizations across the country. He also led their accreditation-related activities with sponsorship of the LCME, national policy formulation across the educational continuum, and the credit system for continuing medical education.
Prior to the AMA, Dr. Desai was also at Johns Hopkins as Director of the Osler Medical Residency and Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Medicine with appointments in Pulmonary and Critical Care, General Internal Medicine, and the Carey School of Business. Before Hopkins, he was Director of the medical ICU at the Medstar Washington Hospital Center, the largest hospital in Washington D.C.
Dr. Desai is an accomplished clinician, researcher, educator, and administrator with has been widely recognized for his accomplishments in academic medicine, policy, clinical practice and health systems administration. His research focuses on generating high-quality data to inform policy and practice in medical education. He has authored over 60 peer-reviewed manuscripts including in the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA, and with a wider reach through podcasts and newspaper editorials.
Dr. Desai grew up in Baltimore, Maryland and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in bioengineering and a Bachelor of Economics from the Wharton School of Business in healthcare management. He earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed his residency and subspecialty fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where is also served as a Chief Resident. Dr. Desai was also a senior advisor for McKinsey & Company, where he also worked as a consultant for variety of industries in the US and in Southeast Asia. Dr. Desai lives in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife and has twin boys in college.
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Bryan Sexton, PhD
Duke Center for the Advancement of Well-being Science
Director
Duke Health Integrated Practice
Chief Wellness Officer
Beyond Mindfulness: Tangible, Systemic, and Structural Approaches to Program-Level Wellness
Thursday, March 4, 2027 / 9:35 AM - 10:40 AM (Mountain)
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Bryan Sexton, PhD, is the Chief Wellness Officer of Duke Health Integrated Practice and Director of the Duke Center for the Advancement of Well-being Science. After 30 years as a psychologist, psychometrician and investigator, he now works with leaders to assess and improve culture and work-force well-being. Bryan has conducted and published large studies and randomized controlled trials showing how to cause enduring improvements in the well-being of our workforce. He has authored over 100 peer reviewed publications, and his research instruments and well-being interventions have been translated and used in over 30 countries.
A psychologist member of the Department of Psychiatry, Bryan is a psychometrician and spends time developing methods of assessing and improving safety culture, teamwork, leadership and especially work-force well-being. Currently, he is disseminating the results from a successful NIH R01 grant that used RCTs to show that we can cause enduring improvements in healthcare worker well-being.
A perpetually recovering father of four, he enjoys running, using hand tools on wood, books on Audible, and hearing particularly good explanations of extremely complicated topics.
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