Associate Professor of Pathology; Medical Director of Transfusion Medicine; Medical Director of Stony Point and Ambulatory Outpatient Pavilion Laboratories; Director of Undergraduate Medical Education

Department: Pathology

Phone: (804) 828-2745

Fax: (804) 828-0876

Email: Kimberly.Sanford@vcuhealth.org

Kimberly Williams Sanford, M.D. was appointed Director of Transfusion Medicine at VCU in 2012 after serving as Associate Director from 2008 until 2012. She also serves as medical director of the laboratory at VCU’s Stony Point and Ambulatory Outpatient Pavilion Laboratories and Director of Undergraduate Education for the Department of Pathology.

Dr. Sanford graduated summa cum laude with a B. S. degree in medical technology from VCU. After working in a variety of laboratories in the Department of Pathology at VCU for six years she entered medical school. Following medical school she completed residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at VCU. In 2008, she then became Associate Medical Director of Transfusion Medicine and Medical Director of Stony Point Laboratory. She also completed a fellowship in Transfusion at University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia and shortly thereafter was appointed as Medical Director of Transfusion Medicine. Dr. Sanford was appointed as Medical Director of Ambulatory Outpatient Pavilion Laboratory in 2022.

Dr. Sanford is a Past President of  the (ASCP).  She was awarded Ward Burdick Award for Dedicated Service to Pathology in 2022,  the "H. P. Smith Award for Distinguished Pathology Educator" in 2015 and the "Mastership Award" in 2011 from ASCP for her national contributions to education. Dr. Sanford is a passionate teacher who has been awarded the "Outstanding Teacher Award" in the pathology introduction course for VCU medical student for 7 consecutive years and was the 2017 recipient of the Enrique Gerszten, M.D. Faculty Teaching Excellence Award from the VCU School of Medicine.

Dr. Sanford Web CV (pdf)

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