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Blair L. Sadler, JD

Former President, Rady Children's Hospital and Health Center, San Diego, CA

Mr. Sadler is President Emeritus of the Rady Children's Hospital and Health Center in San Diego, Senior Fellow of Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Former President/CEO of Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego and Faculty of UC San Diego Schools of Medicine and Management for Healthcare Improvement. He served as President and CEO of Children's from 1980-2006.

A graduate of Amherst College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, he served as a Medical-Legal Specialist for the National Institutes of Health, on the Yale University faculty, as Assistant Vie President at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and as Vice President and Director of the hospital and clinics at Scripps Clinical and Research Foundation. He was the founding chair of the Child Health Accountability Initiative (CHAI), a consortium of 15 children's hospitals dedicated to improving the quality of America's children. He served on the U.S.-Mexico Border Heath Commission.

Among Mr. Sadler's numerous professional activities, he has co-authored three books and has written numerous articles on quality and healthcare. He is a frequent presenter nationally and internationally on the impact of evidence based-design and the business case for building optimal hospitals.