Fred Sanfilippo, MD, PhD
Email: Fred.Sanfilippo@emory.edu
Phone: (404) 778-0234
1518 Clifton Rd 730 GCR
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
Emory Faculty Appointments
Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory School of Medicine
Professor, Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health
Professor of Business Administration, Goizueta Business School
Degrees
BA 1970 University of Pennsylvania
MSc 1972 University of Pennsylvania
PhD 1975 Duke University
MD 1976 Duke University
Career Overview
Fred Sanfilippo, MD, PhD career has been as a physician-scientist and academic leader. He is the Director of the Emory University Healthcare Innovation Program, which has been developed with support from the Woodruff Fund and in coordination with the Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute to enhance innovation in healthcare delivery research, education, and service.
From 2007-2010 Dr. Sanfilippo served as Emory University Executive VP for Health Affairs, CEO of Emory's Woodruff Health Sciences Center, and Chairman of Emory Healthcare. He joined Emory after serving at Ohio State University as Senior VP for Health Sciences and CEO of the OSU Medical Center from 2000-2007, Executive Dean for Health Sciences (2004-2007), and Dean of the OSU College of Medicine and Public Health (2000-2006). He led the formation of the Ohio State Center for Personalized Health, serving as its first director, and the Center for Integrative Health. From 2000-2007 he served as chair of the Board of Directors of Managed Health Care Systems, Inc., which administered the Ohio State University health plans, and from 2004-06 he co-chaired the strategic planning process to develop Your Plan for Health (YP4H).
From 1993 to 2000, Dr. Sanfilippo was the Baxley Professor and Director of the Department of Pathology at Johns Hopkins University, and Pathologist-in-Chief at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He led the formation of the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center, serving as its first Director of Research. Prior to Johns Hopkins, Dr. Sanfilippo was on the Duke University faculty from 1979-1993, rising to Professor of Pathology, Surgery, and Immunology. At Duke he also served as Director of the Duke-VAMC Immunogenetics-Transplantation Laboratory, Director of the Duke Immunopathology Lab, and Chief of the Renal and Transplant Pathology services.
As a leader, Dr. Sanfilippo has been active in academic medicine, transplantation, and pathology. He has served on the editorial board of 13 professional journals, been invited to speak at some 200 academic and scientific venues, and elected president of seven academic and professional organizations. He has been a consultant to over 80 university, government and corporate institutions. As an educator, he has mentored 33 graduate students and fellows, and led the creation of numerous new courses, degree programs, departments, and centers at four institutions. As a scientist, he has published over 250 articles, been awarded three patents, and granted over $30 million in personal research support as principal investigator of R01, P01, and U01 grants from the NIH, as well as from the VA and industry.
Dr. Sanfilippo earned his BS and MS degrees in physics from the University of Pennsylvania, and his MD and PhD in immunology as a Medical Scientist Training Program Fellow at Duke University. During college he spent three summers as a German Research Foundation fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine in Gottingen Germany. He did his residency training in Pathology at Duke University Hospital, receiving Board certification in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, and Immunopathology.
Selected Research Projects
Dr. Sanfilippo’s research projects have included studies in solid state physics, molecular biology and immunogenetics, clinical trials, development of diagnostics and therapeutics, and mechanisms of allograft and xenograft rejection and acceptance. His two major interests continue to focus on the application of informatics to enhance the quality of healthcare delivery at the level of individuals and populations, and enhancement of organizational performance and culture.
Selected Publications
- Sanfilippo F: Academic Health Centers. In: Engineering the Health System. (WB Rouse, D Cortese, eds). IOS Press; 2010: 383-414.
- Blue Ridge Health Advisory Group (Detmer D, Sanfilippo F, et al): The Role of Academic Health Centers in Addressing the Social Determinants of Health. 2009; Report 14. Atlanta, GA: Emory University.
- Sanfilippo F, Bendapudi N, Rucci A, Schlesinger L: Strong Leadership and Teamwork Drive Culture and Performance Change: Ohio State University Medical Center 2000-2006. Academic Medicine 2008; 83:845-854.
- Blue Ridge Health Advisory Group (Detmer D, Sanfilippo F, et al): Advancing Value in Health Care: The Emerging Transformational Role of Informatics. 2008; Report 12. Atlanta, GA: Emory University.
- Cain TJ, Rodman RL, Sanfilippo F, Kroll SM: Managing knowledge and technology to foster innovation at the Ohio State University Medical Center. Academic Medicine 2005;80:1026.
- Sanfilippo F: Pull the plug on the current health care system. The Reporter – Association of American Medical Colleges 2004; 14(3):3.
- Bissell M and Sanfilippo F: Empowering patients with point-of-care testing. Trends in Biotechnol 2002; 20(6):269-270.
- Holmes, EW, Burks TF, Dzau V, Hindery MA, Jones RF, Kaye CI, Korn D, Limbird LE, Marchase RB, Perlmutter R, Sanfilippo F, Strom BL: Measuring contributions to the research mission of medical schools. Acad Med 2000; 75: 303-313.
Other Affiliations and Activities
- American Association of Immunologists
- American Society for Investigative Pathology
- American Society of Transplantation
- Blue Ridge Academic Health Group
- Carter Center, Board of Councilors
- CDC Foundation
- Georgia Bio, Board of Directors
- Georgia Children’s Health Alliance, Executive Committee
- Marcus Foundation, Medical Advisory Board
- Metro Atlanta Chamber, Bioscience Leadership Council
- Transplantation Society
- Webmedx, Board of Directors