Aenor Sawyer, MD

Aenor Sawyer, MD

Associate Professor
Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor
Orthopaedic Institute - Skeletal Health
 

Publications

Awards Honors

  • Dame Elizabeth Murdoch Fellow Award
    2016
    Dame Elizabeth Murdoch Fellow Award, Murdoch Children's Research Institute Royal Children's Hospital, University of Melbourne, 2016
    Murdoch Children's Research Institute Royal Children's Hospital, University of Melbourne
  • David Danks Lecturer
    2016
    David Danks Lecturer, Murdoch Children's Research Institute Royal Children's Hospital, University of Melbourne, 2016
    Murdoch Children's Research Institute Royal Children's Hospital, University of Melbourne
  • Selected of Top 4 Techy Doctors and Top 50 Digital Health Innovators in 2015
    2015
    Selected of Top 4 Techy Doctors and Top 50 Digital Health Innovators in 2015, Rock Health, Fenwick and West, and Goldman Sachs, 2015
    Rock Health, Fenwick and West, and Goldman Sachs
  • Community Service, Hall of Fame
    2005
    Community Service, Hall of Fame, Tri-Valley Sports Hall of Fame, 2005
    Tri-Valley Sports Hall of Fame
  • Lovett Fellowship in Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
    1999
    Lovett Fellowship in Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, 1999
    Boston Children's Hospital
  • Lange Medical Publications Award
    1993
    Lange Medical Publications Award, Stanford University, 1993
    Stanford University
  • President, Honor Medical Society
    1992
    President, Honor Medical Society, Alpha Omega Alpha, 1992
    Alpha Omega Alpha
  • US Olympic Sports Medicine Volt Staff
    1984
    US Olympic Sports Medicine Volt Staff, 1984 US Olympic Games, 1984
    1984 US Olympic Games

Grants & Awards

  • Feasibility Study of US to Assess Bone Density in Spine Clinic Setting
    2022-01-20 -
    UCSF - CDMI
    Role: PI
  • UCSF/TRISH Space Health Innovation Program
    2018-10-01 - 2021-09-30
    NASA P0532788
    Role: PI
  • Center for Advanced 3D+ Technologies - "Personalized Precision Surgery and Intervention"
    2018-08-01 - 2019-08-01
    UCSF
    Role: PI

Education

M.D. University of California Davis 1993

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About Aenor Sawyer, MD

Dr. Aenor Sawyer, has more than two decades of experience in development and evaluation of health technologies, telemedicine and remote medical management.

In addition to her Clinical work in Orthopaedics as the Director of the Skeletal Health Service, Dr Sawyer was recently recruited into UCSF innovation Ventures to serve as Director of Innovator Enrichment and also Manager in Strategic Alliances. Dr. Sawyer’s experience in remote medical management includes 15 years as an Expedition Medic and Medical Advisor for extreme ocean rowers. She also conducts research with the Australian Antarctic Division on remote medical monitoring. She has expertise in remote care and Space Health/Medical management as the Director of the UC Space Health Program and previously served as the Chief Health Innovation Officer for the Translational Research Institute for Space Health, a NASA-funded program.

She is a member of the UCSF IT Governance Committee, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the UCSF Center for Advanced 3D+ Technologies, Co-Founder of the Center for Digital Health Innovation, and a UCSF HEALTH HUB board member. External roles also include Chair of MCRI HealthTechnology Advisory Board, Advisor to UCSF Invest Fund, Advisor to ANDHealth, External Advisory Board Member of the Scripps Translational Sciences Institute, and prior Associate Editor of Nature’s Digital Medicine Journal.

As a UCSF Orthopedist, she is Founder and Director of the Skeletal Health Service where she combines her background as an Orthopaedic Surgeon, Physical Therapist and Exercise Physiologist enabling pediatric to geriatric patients optimize their bone health across the lifespan. Dr Sawyer's career includes 10 years as a Physical Therapist, after which she received an M.S. in Human Physiology and her M.D. from the University of California, Davis. Upon completion of her Orthopaedic Surgery residency at Stanford University, she completed fellowship training in Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery and Paediatric/Adolescent Sports Medicine, both at Boston Children's Hospital, in the Harvard Orthopaedic program