Kelly C. Sandberg

Dr. Sandberg is the Senior Medical Director for the Institute of Quality and Safety. He has served in multiple quality roles at Dayton Children’s Hospital, continues to see patients as a pediatric gastroenterologist, and train as a professor in pediatrics.

As a leader in quality, Dr. Sandberg was a founding director of the Intermediate Quality Improvement Program (IQIC) in 2016. He led efforts to become an ABMS MOC Part IV Portfolio sponsor in 2019 and created an enterprise-level quality index. He has also served as member and chair (2022-23) of the NIH’s Literature Selection and Technical Review Committee that evaluates biomedical journals for inclusion in the MEDLINE database. He continues to serve and lead multiple teams and committees to ensure quality care delivery at Dayton Children’s Hospital.

His research efforts have focused on pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis) and quality improvement. He serves on multiple national committees for the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN), as well as ImproveCareNow, an international health learning collaborative, that has increased remission rates at Dayton Children’s Hospital by more than 20% since 2015.

Dr. Sandberg trained at The University of Arizona College of Medicine and completed his general pediatrics residency at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. He completed fellowships in Gastroenterology and Pediatric Health Services Research, as well as a Masters in Health and Healthcare Research from the University of Michigan. Dr. Sandberg joined Dayton Children’s Hospital and Wright State University in 2014.