Noted Indian American physician Sanjay Saint has been awarded the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award in the Individual Achievement category for improving patient safety and health care quality in innovative ways.
Dr. Saint, the chair of medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, was recognized by Joint Commission, an independent, evidence-based standards setting organization for patient care and the National Quality Forum.
Dr. Saint, the David J. Greene Professor of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, is also chair of the Department of Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center and North Shore University Hospital, and senior vice president of the Medicine Service Line at Northwell Health.
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The Eisenberg Awards are named in honor of the late John M. Eisenberg, a leading advocate for health care quality improvement.
“Receiving the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award is deeply personal to me because I had the privilege of knowing Dr. Eisenberg,” said Dr. Saint. “He combined intellectual rigor with genuine humility and an unwavering belief that we could – and must – do better for patients. He taught us that improving safety is not simply about finding errors; it is about listening carefully, learning together, and building systems that help good people provide safer care.”
Dr. Saint has committed his career to focusing on preventing health care-associated infections and device-related patient harm, particularly catheter-associated urinary tract infections, according to a university release.
He pioneered the implementation of scientific approaches that combine technical interventions with organizational and behavioral change. He has also helped shape national guidelines, and quality metrics, as well as evidence-based practices related to urinary catheters, central lines, hand hygiene, and infection prevention.
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Dr. Saint has been a visiting professor at more than 100 institutions across the United States, Europe and Asia, authoring more than 400 peer-reviewed papers and several books on clinical medicine, mentorship and patient safety.
Dr. Saint earned dual bachelor’s degrees in Biology and Political Science from the University of California, Irvine; Doctor of Medicine from the UCLA School of Medicine and a Master of Public Health degree as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar from the University of Washington. He completed an internal medicine residency and chief residency at University of California, San Francisco.