Dr. Sanders attended Georgetown University where he received a Bachelor of Science degree. He received his MD degree from the University of Louisville Health Sciences Center. He completed Pediatric residency at the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center and Pediatric Cardiology fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. He was Director of the Cardiac Noninvasive Laboratory at Boston Children’s Hospital from 1983 until 1994, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at Duke University for seven years and Chair of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery at Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome, Italy for 5 years. In 2010 he became director of the Stella and Richard Van Praagh Cardiac Registry at Boston Children’s Hospital, a collection of 4000 catalogued heart specimens. His primary interests include the embryology and morphology of congenital heart defects and anatomy-imaging correlation. He has extensive experience with the pathology of childhood heart disease, analysis of materials used in cardiac surgery, and creation of 3D models from CT and MRI images of heart specimens.