Rate My Professor Jessica Sanchez

Jessica Sanchez, MD, is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at Stanford University School of Medicine. As a Medicine faculty member, she plays a key role in the clinical care of pediatric patients with cardiac conditions at Stanford Children's Health and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. Her expertise in pediatric cardiology supports both patient care and the training of medical professionals in this specialized field.

Sanchez earned her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson, Arizona, graduating on May 31, 2016. She began her postgraduate training with an internship in the Pediatric Residency Program at the University of Connecticut in Hartford, Connecticut, completing it on June 27, 2017. She then continued her residency training in Pediatrics at the Boston Children’s Hospital Combined Residency Program and Boston Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, finishing on June 30, 2019, and achieving board certification in Pediatrics from the American Board of Pediatrics that same year. Following residency, Sanchez completed her Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, on June 30, 2022, which prepared her for her current academic position. Sanchez has made contributions to the scientific literature through peer-reviewed publications. In 2017, she co-authored "Lower Hospital Charges and Societal Costs for Catheter Device Closure of Atrial Septal Defects" in Pediatric Cardiology. Her 2015 publication, "ANG II-induced hypertension in the VCD mouse model of menopause is prevented by estrogen replacement during perimenopause," appeared in the American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. Additionally, in 2020, she published "Using 4-vinylcyclohexene diepoxide as a model of menopause for cardiovascular disease" in the American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology.