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Biography
Professor Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH, FRCP, is the Chief of Medicine at the VA Ann Arbor and the George Dock Professor of Medicine at the University of Michigan. He has authored over 375 peer-reviewed papers, and serves on the editorial board of several peer-reviewed journals including NEJM Catalyst and BMJ Quality & Safety. He is a Special Correspondent to the New England Journal of Medicine, and is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), and the Association of American Physicians (AAP).
He has coauthored three books published by Oxford University Press: ‘Preventing Hospital Infections: Real-World Problems, Realistic Solutions’, ‘Teaching Inpatient Medicine: What Every Physician Needs to Know’ and ‘The Saint-Chopra Guide to Inpatient Medicine (4th Edition)’. In 2019 he received Mastership in the American College of Physicians (MACP). In 2017 he was awarded the Health System Impact Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Distinguished Mentor Award from the University of Michigan. In 2016 he received the Mark Wolcott Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs as the National VA Physician of the Year and was named an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP).
What are the key leadership messages you want to get out to the BMJ Leader readership?
The key leadership messages are mostly the same whether or not a pandemic is occurring. However, during a pandemic, adhering to several of the following becomes even more crucial since time seems compressed during urgencies. My key leadership messages are:
Communicate but do not inundate. It is important to send out regular communications, usually via email. However, do not do these too frequently as it will be too much for the people in your Department or unit to handle and process. If possible, sending out regular emails will be something that your unit members may look forward to receiving and reading.
Stay organised and …