Dr. Indra Sandal served as the Innovation Specialist at the Memphis VA Medical Center from 2019 to 2022 as well as in several prominent national and local facility innovation roles with VHA Innovation Ecosystem. She currently serves as a faculty member for Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Catalyst program, a collaborative initiative accelerating innovation to benefit healthcare and technology. From 2020-2022, Dr. Sandal served as VHA Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Executive Management Fellow where she spearheaded the national VUHC Initiative. Through the initial pilot, 3600 Veterans received 22,000 Uber Health rides and 10 VA Medical Center (VAMC) facilities were able to achieve $25M in cost savings from faster emergency and inpatient discharges and avoidance of no-show/missed appointments. This pilot will be expanding to an additional 60 new VAMCs.

Before joining VA, Dr. Sandal also held prominent research roles, including serving as Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, UT from 2011-2014 and as Research Scientist at Virginia Tech from 2005-2011. Her genetic and genomic research outcomes included 17 secured patents, 14 peer reviewed journal publications as lead author, three book chapters and over 50 conference presentations worldwide.