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PEOPLE
- Associate Director for Community Outreach
 Georgia
Robins Sadler, BSN, MBA, PhD
Clinical Professor of Surgery
Dr. Sadler is responsible
for leading the research and service activities of the UCSD Cancer Center’s
Community Outreach Program. The Community Outreach Program interfaces
with every aspect of the Cancer Center’s operation, and it is important
that its leader is conversant in the Cancer Center’s clinical mission,
with a working knowledge of cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment,
and clinical trials. Dr. Sadler has a sufficient background in the basic
sciences to help strategize on basic science research programs that
interface with the lay and professional communities for the collection
of human specimens and tissue samples. Equally important, she has frequent
contact with other clinical institutions throughout the region to help
facilitate inter-institutional collaborations. Finally, since greater
representation of gender and minorities in clinical research is of critical
importance,Dr. Sadler possesses a broad understanding of these cohorts
and a demonstrated track record of working effectively with them and
the other community organizations that serve them.
Georgia Sadler,
BSN, MBA, PhD assumed this senior leadership role in 1994 after serving
as the Associate Director for Administration since 1981. She is a health
advisor to several of the region’s politicians on clinical trials, cancer
prevention, early detection, and treatment issues, and can provide the
Center Director with an insider’s view of many bills pending legislative
action. She created a program focused on promoting community awareness
of cancer prevention and early detection, clinical trials accrual, and
palliation.
Sadler holds, or has held, many key voluntary leadership positions which
enrich the Center’s relationships regionally, as well as statewide.
These current and recent past board memberships include: the San Diego
and Imperial Counties Breast Cancer Early Detection Partnership (and
past chairperson); the San Diego Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast
Cancer Foundation; American Melanoma Foundation; WellStart International
Board; the California Institute for Health Systems Performance; the
ACS’s Statewide Prostate Cancer Initiative; and the HomeCare Board of
Advisors.
She is also a member of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation’s
Clinical Trials Initiative Advisory Group on increasing minority accrual
to clinical trials, the local ACS Prostate Cancer Awareness Chairperson,
the Thriver’s Network Advisory Board, the Southwest Regional Community
Advisory Board, and the San Diego ACS Furthering Volunteer Leadership
Team. In 1998 she was named a “Woman of Achievement,” and a “Women Together”
recipient. In 1999 she was named a “Biotech Superstar” and a Susan G.
Komen Breast Cancer Foundation “Local Hero” and received the “Balance
Award” by the Women Who Mean Business. In 2000 she was named a “Woman
of Dedication,” in recognition of her extraordinary commitment to the
community and her accomplishments in improving its well being. The Community
Outreach Program she leads received UCSD 1999 Diversity Award for helping
the institution to achieve diversity both inside and outside of the
University. In 1999, Sadler was named “Woman of the Year” for the 78th
District by the California Legislative Woman’s Caucus and has been frequently
called upon to testify before the State legislature on bills related
to clinical trials access and breast cancer early detection and treatment.
Dr. Sadler’s experiences gained as a bedside nurse, combined with her
MBA in Health Care Administration from Wharton Graduate School, gives
her valuable insights into the Cancer Center’s operation. Her experiences
and expertise range from physician education and quality assurance programs
to public health education programs. As an indication of her nationally
recognized expertise, Sadler is a member of the editorial board of the
Journal of Cancer Education and a reviewer for other journals.
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