Profiles

Sandip Godambe, MD, PhD, MBA

Dr. Godambe is a pediatric emergency physician with over 15 years of experience. He served as a faculty member, Associate Medical Director of Emergency Services, and Director of Medical Staff Quality at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis prior to his present role at CHKD. He is also a Professor of Pediatrics at Eastern Virginia Medical School and continues to enjoy clinical work, bedside teaching, and research.

As Vice President of Clinical Integration and Quality, Dr. Godambe works with the executive team to develop, establish and maintain the corporate quality improvement and patient safety program for the CHKD. He also provides leadership, consultation, training and mentorship to the health system, physician groups and affiliated entities to improve patient safety and quality across the continuum of care. And he works to improve the efficiency of care and coordinate performance improvement efforts throughout the health system.

In addition Dr. Godambe is a Senior Examiner for the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, which is jointly administered by the NIST, ASQ, and the Department of Commerce. He has remained active with AAP and ACEP as well as with the Children’s Hospital Solutions for Patient Safety.

He has authored numerous publications and chapters in emergency medicine and immunology. He was also an associate editor of the 5 Minute Fleisher and Ludwig’s Pediatric Emergency Medicine Consult and the 2013 Pediatric Emergency Medicine Question Book. He is the technical editor for Challenger’s Pediatric Emergency Medicine module. He is an editor of the 2017 Pediatric Emergency Medicine Question Book. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice.