Bio
Dr. Sarah Hilgenberg is a Clinical Professor of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health. Highly active in the Association of Pediatric Program Directors, she was an Associate Program Director of Curriculum in Stanford’s Pediatric Residency Program for 11 years where she designed, implemented, and studied multiple innovative local and national curricular initiatives. She is a longstanding passionate mentor and sponsor in Stanford Pediatric Residency’s Medical Education Scholarly Concentration and the Department’s Pediatric Coaching and Mentoring Program. She and her mentees have won numerous grants and awards for their scholarship. In addition, she directs Stanford Pediatrics Peer Scholarship Communities Program which aims to equip clinical faculty with skills to enhance their scholarship. She also recently became the Director of the Rathann Fellowship which provides part-time protected funding for one year of support for one or more Stanford faculty members to pursue scholarly activities focused on the promotion of patient-centered care in medical education. In conjunction with the fellowship, she is excited to collaborate with Stanford's Center for Immersive and Simulation-Based Learning to advance technology-forward scholarly activity across the educational continuum. Nationally, she is the Chair of the Academic Pediatric Association's Educational Scholars Program Curriculum Committee and Associate Editor of the View from APPD section of the journal Academic Pediatrics. In her spare time, she enjoys running, hiking, reading, gardening, doing crosswords, watching her kids’ sports games and music concerts, and spending time with her family outdoors.
