Lisa Sanders

Lisa Sanders is associate professor of medicine and teaches in the internal medicine residency program at Yale School of Medicine. Sanders created and writes the biweekly “Diagnosis” column for The New York Times Magazine, which inspired the hit television series House MD. With The New York Times and producer Scott Rudin, Sanders created a series of documentaries, now airing on Netflix, that follow patients searching for a diagnosis using crowdsourcing. Her recent book, Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries, a collection of her New York Times columns, was published in summer 2021. She is also the author of the best-selling, Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis. Before medical school Sanders was an Emmy award-winning producer for CBS News.