Tara Sanft MD

Tara Sanft, MD, is board-certified in both medical oncology and hospice and palliative medicine, which she feels helps her treat the "whole person" and not just a disease. As the Chief Patient Experience Officer at Smilow Cancer Hospital, she enjoys thinking about improving care, especially where the provider and patient experience overlap. As a breast oncologist, she has a busy practice and enjoys taking care of women with newly diagnosed breast cancer.

As the director of the Yale Survivorship Clinic, one of the nation’s only multi-disciplinary clinics specializing in cancer survivorship, she learn from patients about key issues after treatment, and this informs her role as Chair of the NCCN Survivorship Guidelines. Her research focuses on healthy lifestyles and quality of life after cancer. She is a facilitator for the Relationship-Centered Communication Workshop that addresses how to develop therapeutic relationships with our patients and each other.