Dr. Sandip Godambe, chief medical officer and senior vice president of medical affairs for Rady Children’s Hospital Orange County, earned recognition in Becker’s Hospital Review’s article, “252 hospital and health system chief medical officers to know | 2026.”
As noted by the leading healthcare publication, Dr. Godambe leads activities involving medical staff, quality, patient safety, regulatory affairs, performance excellence, and risk and accreditation for the pediatric healthcare system. Since joining Children’s Hospital of Orange County, now Rady Children’s Health, in 2021, he has launched several initiatives to enhance continuous process improvements, integrate services and people enterprise-wide, and address physician and staff burnout.
As a former senior advisor with the Baldridge Performance Excellence Program and an improvement advisor and fellow with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, he created a formal improvement science curriculum branded “CHOC Way.” Practical training, mentorship and consulting in improvement science is provided to empower physicians and staff to enhance clinical outcomes, patient care access, and the patient and family experience. He is also helping lead the hospital’s efforts to cultivate a happy and empowered workforce utilizing the institute’s “joy in work” framework.
Dr. Godambe has contributed to the public’s knowledge in emergency medicine, quality and immunology by authoring numerous publications. He is an editor of the 2017 Pediatric Emergency Medicine Question Book and the 2019 5-Minute Fleisher and Ludwig’s Pediatric Emergency Medicine Consult.
