Tara Sanft, MD
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Biography
I am board certified in both medical oncology and hospice and palliative medicine, which I feel helps me treat the "whole person" and not just a disease. As the Chief Patient Experience Officer at Smilow Cancer Hospital, I enjoy thinking about improving care, especially where the provider and patient experience overlaps. As a breast oncologist, I have a busy practice and enjoy taking care of women with newly diagnosed breast cancer. As the director of the Yale Survivorship Clinic, one of the nation’s only multi-disciplinary clinics specializing in cancer survivorship, I learn from patients about key issues after treatment and this informs my role as Chair of the NCCN Survivorship Guidelines. My research focuses on healthy lifestyles and quality of life after cancer. I am a facilitator for Relationship-Centered Communication Workshop that address how we develop therapeutic relationships with our patients and each other.
Education & Training
- FellowshipNorthwestern University, Chicago, Illinois (2010)
- FellowshipNorthwestern University, Chicago, Illinois (2010)
- ResidentNorthwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (2007)
- MDMedical College Wisconsin (2004)
Departments & Organizations
- Cancer Prevention and Control
- Center for Breast Cancer
- Internal Medicine
- Irwin Lab (LEAN Study)
- Medical Oncology
- Obesity Research Working Group
- Pusztai Lab
- Subset Medical Oncology Faculty
- Survivorship Clinic
- Transdisciplinary Research in Energetics and Cancer Research Education Program
- Yale Cancer Center
- Yale Medicine
- Yale Ventures