Chief EM
Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital
Dr. Leon Sanchez is currently the Chief of Emergency Medicine at the MGB Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital. Prior to that he was the Vice Chair for Network Operations at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School with over 100 peer reviewed publications. He is an accomplished physician executive with over 20 years of healthcare experience. He is a nationally recognized expert in the field of Emergency Medicine Operations and has lectured both nationally and internationally.
Areas of recent focus include operational improvement, patient flow and throughput optimization, queuing, and schedule optimization. His clinical experience spans a large variety of Emergency Departments both in terms of size and resources. His research innovations have been implemented in academic and non academic settings.
Dr. Sanchez received his Doctor of Medicine from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. He earned his Masters of Public Health from Columbia University and completed his Emergency Medicine residency training at Jacobi Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He has been practicing in Massachusetts since 2001.