Sandy Shea
Sandy Shea serves as program director of the non-profit CIR Policy and Education Initiative and policy director of the Committee of Interns and Residents/SEIU Healthcare, a national union of resident physicians with 13,000 members in more than 60 public and private teaching hospitals.
A graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Ms. Shea has more than 30 years of experience with resident physician training issues, beginning her career as staff for the House Officers’ Association at Boston City Hospital. Resident work hours and patient and physician safety have been a consistent focus of her work. She co-authored a 2010 BioMed Central-Medicine article reporting on the results of a national opinion survey to determine the public’s perception of the hours that resident physicians work and their support for reform.
Ms. Shea lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.