Eric Sanford

Eric Sanford is a Psychiatry Resident at The Mount Sinai Hospital since July 2022, following an MD/PhD program at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania from August 2015 to May 2022. Prior to medical training, Sanford served as a Senior Research Associate at Foundation Medicine from March 2013 to June 2015, where responsibilities included developing eligibility methods for clinical trials based on genomic alterations and writing a microsatellite instability classification algorithm. Experience also includes roles as Clinical Bioinformatics Analyst, Analyst at The Advisory Board Company, and a Teaching Assistant in Immunology and Biochemistry at Brown University. Educational qualifications consist of a Doctor of Medicine (MD), a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computational Biology, and a Bachelor's Degree in Neuroscience with Honors from Brown University. Additional involvements include volunteer work as an EMT and experience as a keyboardist and backing vocalist with Still Fumin’ Records.