David E. Sandberg

David E. Sandberg, PhD is Professor and Director of the Division of Child Behavioral Health in the Department of Pediatrics & Communicable Diseases at the University of Michigan. He obtained his doctorate in Psychology from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada and completed postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Miami Medical School and at the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University. As a pediatric psychologist, Dr. Sandberg provides psychoeducational and behavioral health services to children and adolescents with endocrine disorders, in particular, conditions affecting linear growth or disorders of sex development (DSD).

Dr. Sandberg’s research program is closely linked to his clinical service and includes the study of psychosocial aspects of short stature and the effects of growth hormone on quality of life outcomes. He participated in the recent international consensus conference on idiopathic short stature sponsored by the Growth Hormone Research Society, the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society and the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology; aspects of the published document are informed by his research findings. Dr. Sandberg’s research group also examines the psychosocial management of persons born with DSD, and their families, and currently holds a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to create a series of health-related quality of life measures for DSD.