Dr. Sanders attended Georgetown University and the University of Louisville Medical School. He completed residency in Pediatrics at the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center and fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology at Boston Children’s Hospital. He was Director of the Cardiac Noninvasive Laboratory at Boston Children’s Hospital from 1983 until 1994. He was a consultant cardiologist at the Aldo Castañeda Institute in Genolier, Switzerland for two years and then Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at Duke University for seven years. For five years he was Chair of the Medical Surgical Department of Pediatric Cardiology at Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù in Rome, Italy. In 2010 he returned to Boston Children’s Hospital to direct the Cardiac Registry. His primary interests include the development and pathology of congenital heart defects and the correlation between pathology and clinical imaging studies.