Rockingham Times

Sanders to assume top medical post mid-January 2023

PORTSMOUTH—Portsmouth Regional Hospital (PRH) has appointed Brian Sanders, MD, MHCM, as chief medical officer, effective Jan. 16, 2023. Sanders comes to PRH from Mass General Brigham’s Salem Hospital where he has served for six years as chief of the Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, and chair of the Department of Pediatrics.

“Dr. Sanders has exceptional medical and leadership experience,” said Dean M. Carucci, chief executive officer of Portsmouth Regional Hospital. “I’m confident he will be an invaluable member of the Portsmouth team as we continue to provide high-quality care to our patients, and as we advance on our journey as an academic medical center.”

During his tenure at Salem Hospital, Sanders managed one of Massachusetts’ busiest emergency departments; oversaw newborn care, pediatric, outpatient services; and worked with community pediatricians and family medicine physicians to best serve families and children on Massachusetts’ North Shore.

A board-certified pediatrics and pediatric emergency medicine physician, Sanders also served as site director for the Boston University Medical Student Program at MassGeneral Hospital for Children at Salem Hospital, as medical director for the COVID-19 employee testing clinic and COVID vaccine program, and as site director for REVISE (Reducing Variability in the Infant Sepsis Evaluation) Study for the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Prior to joining Mass General Brigham’s Salem Hospital, Sanders served as Medical Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Lowell General Hospital, and as a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Children’s Hospital Boston; Children’s Specialty Group in Norfolk, Virginia; and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Associates in Atlanta, Georgia.

A graduate of the University of Virginia where he played varsity tennis, Sanders earned his medical degree at the Medical College of Georgia in Atlanta. He completed his residency and fellowship at Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Norfolk, Virginia, and earned his master’s degree in healthcare management from Harvard University Chan School of Public Health in 2020. Additionally, he has held academic appointments at Harvard Medical School and East Virginia Medical School. Currently, he is an assistant professor at Boston University School of Medicine.

About Portsmouth Regional Hospital

Portsmouth Regional Hospital is a 234-bed acute care hospital located in Portsmouth, NH, serving the Seacoast region’s residents in New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts. The private, tax-paying hospital is one of the area’s largest employers and is the only ACS Verified Level II Trauma Center on New Hampshire’s Seacoast. Portsmouth Regional Hospital is the Seacoast’s only comprehensive heart and vascular program, and has the region’s only 24/7 comprehensive neurosurgical and stroke clot retrieval and aneurysm coiling programs for both ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes. Portsmouth Regional Hospital, along with Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester and Parkland Medical Center in Derry, is a member of HCA Healthcare’s Capital Division, one of the nation’s leading providers of health care services. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram.
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