Georgia Robins-Sadler, MD

Dr. Sadler is an emeritus Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the past Associate Director for Community Outreach at the UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center. She is also on the faculty of the SDSU/UC San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology.

The central focus of Dr. Sadler's research is on developing and testing programs that can reduce health disparities among diverse communities. Such programs focus on cancer prevention, early detection, and coping, as well as achieving better representation of diverse communities in clinical trials research. Working within community-campus partnerships, she has collaborated with the African American, Asian American, Deaf, Hispanic, Native American, and Pacific Islander communities.

A complementary focus is her research focus on developing and testing programs to increase the diversity of students applying to graduate school and professional degree programs. She has directed the NIH-funded Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences, the Creating Scientists to Address Health Disparities and the Bridges to the Future programs on the UC San Diego campus. She is the UC San Diego faculty Advisor for the Cancer Outreach Team, a service-learning campus club that trains bi-cultural Asian and Pacific Islander students to serve as cancer community health educators and then places them in training venues at the Asian grocery stores throughout San Diego County.

Among the courses she has most enjoyed teaching are Introduction to the Patient, Introduction to the Health Care System, Introduction to Behavioral Research Methods, and Health Journalism. She also offers students Independent Study for credit and service learning opportunities in her research laboratory every quarter and throughout the summer. Dr. Sadler's office is at the UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center in La Jolla, California.