Learn more about Dr. Sharmila Anandasabapathy, Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Vice-President, Health, UBC.
Biography
Dr. Sharmila Anandasabapathy is an internationally renowned clinician-scientist, whose work spans cancer detection, biomedical engineering and global health.
Dr. Anandasabapathy joined the University of British Columbia (UBC) in November 2025 and serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Vice-President, Health, UBC. Prior to her appointment at UBC, she served as Vice-President and Senior Associate Dean, Global Programs, at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, where she oversaw the institution’s global programs, affiliations and partnerships.
A gastroenterologist by training, Dr. Anandasabapathy’s work bridges education, training, clinical practice and innovation — from bench-to-bedside diagnostics to community-based implementation. She is known for developing and validating low-cost, scalable technologies to improve early detection of gastrointestinal cancers. She leads several global clinical trials and holds four major research grants funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute.
Dr. Anandasabapathy earned an MD, with a distinction in research, from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. She completed her internal medicine training at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and her gastroenterology fellowship at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.
Dr. Anandasabapathy also holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Yale University.
Throughout her career as a clinician, educator and researcher, she has focused on the interface of translational science, cancer early detection, biomedical engineering, innovation and global health equity.