Alfred Sadler, M.D.
Alfred Sadler, M.D. ScD (Hon) FACP. He is Co-Founder of the Physician Assistant Program at California State University Monterey Bay in 2015 and is President of the Cypress Foundation – dedicated to improving physician and PA workforce in the tri county area where he lives. He was trained in Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and in internal medicine at the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital. He practiced primary care in Monterey County for nearly forty years with emphasis on underserved populations. He is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha and in 2018 was recognized as “Physician of the Year” by the Monterey County Medical Society. He is a coauthor of The Physician Assistant: An Illustrated History in 2013. He served as the first President of the Physician Assistant Education Society and as President of the Physician Assistant History Society.
Blair Sadler, J.D.
Blair Sadler, J.D. is a senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and a member of the faculty at the University of California San Diego’s Rady School of Management, where he teaches about leading with transparency and empathy in times of crisis. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, he served as a law clerk for two judges of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. From 1980 to 2006, he was the president and CEO of the Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego. He serves on the boards of the Hastings Center, Health Care Without Harm, and the Access Youth Academy.