Blair Sadler
 Blair L Sadler is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and a member of the faculty at the UCSD School of Medicine and Rady School of Management. He served as President and CEO of the Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego from July 1980 until July 2006. Under his leadership, Rady Children’s was the first pediatric hospital in the United States to win the Ernest A Codman Award for its work in developing clinical pathways.. He speaks to healthcare Boards of Trustees about their role in patient safety and quality.
He served on the Board of the Center for Health Design, and has been heavily involved in developing the business case for building better hospitals through evidence-based design. He was a founder of the Center’s Pebble program – a collaborative effort to identify, support and disseminate the work of pioneering organizations throughout the world in evidence - based design.
He has consulted with several health systems throughout the world regarding building optimally safe and low stress hospitals through evidence - based design. He has written extensively on the compelling business case for evidence based design. He is a frequent speaker on the topic at major meetings including the Annual Forum of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
He is a founder of the Blair L Sadler International Healing Arts Awards Competition in partnership with the Society of the Arts in Health Care. He is co-author of a new book: Transforming the Healthcare Experience through the Arts with Annette Ridenour (www.artandhealthcare.com).
Previously, he served as a Law Clerk for the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, medical-legal specialist for the National Institutes of Health, on the faculty at Yale University, as a senior officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and as a senior executive at the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation. He is a member of the Board of the Hastings Center. He is a graduate of Amherst College and of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
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