LawrenceKeithSandsDOMPH

Public Health & General Preventive Medicine

Vice-Chair, Dept of Osteopthic Family & Community Medicine; Clinical Professor, Preventive Medicine & Public Health Midwestern University/AZCOM

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Office
Midwestern University/AZCOM
19555 North 59th Avenue
Glendale, AZ 85308
Phone+1 623-572-3761

Fax+1 623-572-3301

Summary

As an administrator and physician, my career has evolved from Primary Care Provider to Division Director/Medical Director in public health settings to senior-level administration management, teaching and executive leadership. In each position, my contributions have demonstrated vision with a talent for developing and executing strategic plans; effectively administering grant- and contract-funded programs and projects; forging public-private partnerships and other crucial alliances; and assembling/leading engaged, solutions-focused teams.

Building relationships and bringing together individuals and groups to accomplish bold, mutually beneficial goals is one of my greatest strengths. With a talent for "connecting the dots," I have successfully established and sustained numerous public-private partnerships and strategic alliances with key community agencies, businesses, government officials, health professionals, managed care systems, non-profits, and education programs. A number of these partnerships are still active and thriving after many years.

A trusted spokesperson and community health advocate, I build awareness and credibility for programs and organizations with the media, business community, professional associations, elected officials, and governing bodies.

Teaching and workforce development are also among my interests and passions. As an adjunct professor and instructor with the University of Nevada School of Medicine, Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, and Touro University-Nevada College of Osteopathic Medicine, I have experience in mentoring medical and public health students, preventive medicine residents, CDC assignees, and others. I take great satisfaction in inspiring the next generation of medical and public health professionals.

My credentials include an MPH in health planning & administration, Doctor of Osteopathy (DO), and board certification in preventive medicine & public health.

Education & Training

University of Michigan School of Public HealthMPH, Preventive Medicine & Public Health, 1985 - 1987
Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine at Midwestern UniversityClass of 1981

Certifications & Licensure

AZ State License 1982 - 2026
NV State License 2005 - 2013
American Board of Preventive Medicine Public Health & General Preventive Medicine
AOA Board of Preventive Medicine Preventive Medicine/Public Health

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Outstanding Achievement Alumni Award Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine Alumni Association, 2016
Carrison Award Nevada Osteopathic Medical Association, 2013
Littlejohn Alumni Award Midwestern University, 2004
Citizen’s Award Asian-American Group, 2011
President’s Award Nevada State Medical Association, 2009
Recognition Award Arizona Local Health Officer Association, 2005
President’s Award Arizona Osteopathic Medical Association, 2002
Maternal, Infant and Child Health Epidemiology Award Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1999
“Snap Shot” Award for Public Education The Arizona Partnership for Infant Immunization Phoenix, 1999
Doctor Clarence Salsbury Medal Maricopa County Medical Society, 1999
Long Shot Award for Public Policy The Arizona Partnership for Infant Immunization (tapii), 1998
John M. Doll Memorial Award for Outstanding Contribution to Public Health Literature Arizona Department of Health Services, 1997
State of Arizona, Governor’s Award for Excellence Team Member, The Arizona Partnership for Infant Immunization (tapii), 1996
State of Arizona, Governor’s Award for Excellence Team Member, Arizona Department of Health Services Personnel Task Force, 1995
State of Arizona, Governor’s Spirit of Excellence Recognition Award The Arizona Partnership for Infant Immunization (tapii), 1993
Who’s Who in the West, MARQUIS Who’s Who 1992
Certificate of Appreciation, In Recognition of Outstanding Achievements in Early Childhood Immunization U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1991
Grant for Preventive Medicine Residency Training U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1985, 1986
Sigma Sigma Phi National Osteopathic Honors Fraternity, 1980
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Publications & Presentations

Journal Articles

Congenital Tuberculosis
Cantwell, Shehab, Harriman, Costello, Fox, Sands, Green, Webster, Valway, Onorato, New England Journal of Medicine
Hantavirus in the southwestern United States: Epidemiology of an emerging pathogen.
Sands, Kioski, Komatsu, Journal of the American Osteopathic Association
Increasing the Effectiveness of HIV Counseling.
Hirano, Slaughter, Sands, Gellert, American Journal of Public Health
Epidemiologic Linkage of Rodent and Human Hantavirus Genomic Sequences in Case Investigations of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome.
Hjelle, Tomez-Martinez, Koster, Jay, Ascher, Brown, Reynolds, Ettestad, Voorhees, Sarisky, Enscore, Sands, Mosley, Kioski, Bryan, Sewell, Journal of Infectious Diseases
An airline passenger with pulmonary/laryngeal tuberculosis: no evidence of transmission on two short flights.
Moore, Fleming, Sands, Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine
The Key to Raising Childhood Immunization Rates in Your Practice: Self-Assessment.
Sands, Arizona Medicine, June 1996; Arizona Osteopathic Medical Association Digest
Acute Hepatitis C Virus Infections Attributed to Unsafe Injection Practices at an Endoscopy Clinics – Nevada 2007.
Labus, Sands, Rowley, Azzam, Holmberg, Perz, Patel, Fischer, Schaefer, MMWR
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Abstracts/Posters

Evaluation on Community-Based Immunization Sites.
Smith, Mahon, Santana, Sands, 31 st Annual National Immunization Conference, Detroit, Michigan
Assessing the Preliminary Impact of a Targeted Hepatitis A Vaccination Program in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Jani, Santana, Sands, 34 th Annual National Immunization, Massachusetts
Taking the Ouches Out of Vaccinations: The Study of a Vapocoolant Spray in Public Health Childhood Vaccination Clinics.
Neibergall, Conrad, Yuan, Santana, Bernstein, Sands, Smith, 34 th Annual National Immunization Conference, Washington, DC
Physician Attitudes, Knowledge, and Compliance to a Targeted Hepatitis A Immunization Program.
Jani, Santana, Sands, 34 th Annual National Immunization Conference, Washington, DC
Promoting the Latest in Immunization Technology to Private Physicians.
Sands, Mahon, O’Neil, Bakalian, Carlson, 34 th Annual National Immunization Conference, Washington, DC
Is Measles IgM Still a Useful Tool for Disease Investigation?
Sands, Frieden, Campos-Outcalt, Weisbuch, Santana, 34th Annual National Immunization Conference, Washington, DC
Site Based Management Approach to the WIC/Immunization Linkage.
Smith, Gonzales, Gregg, Sands, 31 st Annual National Immunization Conference, Detroit, Michigan
Perinatal Hepatitis B: A Communicable Disease Investigation Approach to Program Implementation.
Sands, Mahon, Ravsten, Smith, 31 st Annual National Immunization Conference, Detroit, Michigan
Sustaining the Commitment: A Coalition Challenge.
Sands, Bell, Johnson, Lewis, 31 st Annual National Immunization Conference, Detroit, Michigan
Physician Attitudes, Knowledge and Compliance to a New Hepatitis A Immunization Rule.
Jani, Santana, Sands, 128 th Annual Meeting of APHA, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Washington, D.C
Implementation of Adolescent Hepatitis B Recommendation in Middle Schools
Sands, Smith, Diaz, 31 st Annual National Immunization Conference, Detroit, Michigan
Transmission of Tuberculosis on Short Airline Flights?
Moore, Fleming, Sands, American Public Health Association 123rd Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA
Public Health and University Collaborate to Address Community Concerns about Possible Environmentally-Provoked Disease, abstract/presentation, Council on Linkages Be...
Hirano, Dillenberg, Petersen, Meister, Sands, Flood, Clark, Guliano, de Zapien, Le Brec, Walsh, Cañez, Annual Meeting of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officers (ASTHO), Seattle, WA
Epidemiologic Notes and Reports Erythromycin-Resistant Bordetella pertussis.
Lewis, Erickson, Cage, Harter, Kioski, Barefoot, Carmody, Houser, Sands, Saubolle, Lewis, Barbour, Rudinsky, MMWR, Yuma County, Arizona, May 1994
A Cluster of N. meningitidis Serogroup C Disease in Phoenix; Risk Factors for Disease.
Zeitz, Jafari, Kioski, Schuchat, Gellert, Englender, Sands, Santana, Reeves, Wenger, 33rd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), New Orleans, LA
Cholera Risk Assessment of Farmworkers, Yuma County, Arizona.
Zeitz, Browning, Aguirre, Reese, Sands, American Public Health Association 121st Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
Assessment as a Motivational Tool for Changing Immunization Practices in a Private Health Plan.
Boston, Houts, Workman, Sands, Carmody, 27th Annual National Immunization Conference, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Washington, D.C
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Lectures

Whooping Cough Today! The prevention and control of Bordetella pertussis.
Indian Health Services Hospital, Sells, AZ
Don’t Worry….There’s tapii.
Fall Seminar, Arizona Osteopathic Medical Association
Strategies for the Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases.
Third Annual Statewide Conference on Homelessness, The Neighborhood Learning Center, Phoenix, AZ
Make Every Visit Count: Childhood Immunization Self-Assessment Tool-Ki.
Mercy Care Plan, Phoenix, AZ, June 25, 1996; Carondolet Health Plan, Tucson, AZ
Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci.
Quarterly Medical Staff Meeting, Valley Lutheran Hospital, Mesa, AZ
Difficulties in Pertussis Control.
29th National Immunization Conference, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Los Angeles, CA
Epidemiology of Tuberculosis: What it means for clinical practice.
Central Arizona Area Health Education Center, Safford, AZ
What's Hot with Communicable Disease.
Arizona Public Health Association and Arizona School Health Association, Phoenix, AZ
TB and Hantavirus Update.
73rd Annual Arizona Osteopathic Medical Association Convention, Scottsdale, AZ
Sustaining the Commitment: A Coalition Challenge.
31 st National Immunization Conference, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Detroit, MI
Whooping Cough Today! The prevention and control of Bordetella pertussis.
Central Arizona Medical Center, Florence, AZ
Whooping Cough Today! The prevention and control of Bordetella pertussis.
Casa Grande Regional Medical Center, Casa Grande, AZ
Introduction to Emerging Pathogens.
Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases Conference, Hurley Medical Center, Flint, MI
Successful Programs for Health Information Systems.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Charlotte, NC
Safe Injection Practices Campaign.
Nevada Osteopathic Medical Association Summer CME Program, Las Vegas, NV
Local Health Department Response to Health Care Associated Infections.
New Health Official Orientation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, May 2011
What is Public Health?
Family Medicine Residency Grand Rounds, Valley Hospital and Medical Center, Las Vegas, NV
Vaccine Safety and the Future of Immunizations.
79 th Annual Arizona Osteopathic Medical Association Convention, Scottsdale, AZ
Avian Influenza.
Southern Nevada Medical Industry Coalition, Las Vegas, NV
Avian Influenza.
Emergency Management, Las Vegas, NV
Avian Influenza and Pandemic Influenza Planning.
Metro Training Center, Las Vegas, NV
The Prevention of CVD and Stroke in Clark County.
American Heart Association, Las Vegas, NV
Wild about West Nile.
Annual Fall Seminar, Arizona Osteopathic Medical Association, Tucson, AZ
SARS Update.
Annual Fall Seminar, Arizona Osteopathic Medical Association, Tucson, AZ
SARS Update.
Arizona Emergency Medical Services Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ
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Professional Memberships

American Osteopathic Association - AOA
Member
American College of Preventive Medicine - ACPM
Member
American Public Health Association
Member
Association for Prevention Teaching and Research
Member
American Osteopathic College of Occupational and Preventive Medicine
Member
Arizona Osteopathic Medical Association
Member
Arizona Public Health Association
Member