Sarah Wood MD, MSHP

Dr. Sarah M. Wood is the Division Chief of Adolescent Medicine and Director of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center (AHC) and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is a physician-scientist with a career mission to improve the quality and equitable delivery of sexual and reproductive health care for adolescents and young adults. A former community health worker and HIV tester, Dr. Wood earned her undergraduate degree from DePaul University and her M.D. from Drexel University College of Medicine.

After completing residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Dr. Wood continued her training as an Adolescent Medicine fellow and received a Master of Science in Health Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. After completing her training, she joined the faculty at Penn and CHOP, conducting research to develop innovative health care delivery strategies through the Craig Dalsimer Division of Adolescent Medicine and CHOP’s PolicyLab. She was the Co-Director of the Clinical Core of the Penn Center for AIDS Research and the Assistant Director of Adolescent HIV Services. In 2024, she joined the faculty at Mount Sinai to carry on the mission and the vision of the Division of Adolescent Medicine and the AHC.

Her research, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and Gilead Sciences, focuses on developing and implementing HIV prevention interventions in adolescent primary care.  She has published more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals and is a frequent speaker at podcasts, webinars, and national meetings on adolescent health.  Clinically, she is an Adolescent Medicine and HIV specialist committed to improving the care of youth locally and globally.