A multi-center collaborative network for emergency medicine research at Kaiser Permanente.
2026 Sidney R. Garfield Exceptional Contribution Award
Recipient Dana Sax, MD, MPH
A Vision to Rapidly Diagnose and Manage Stroke in the Eye
When a patient shows up in the emergency department with sudden vision loss, every minute counts. In 2022, Dr. Dana Sax of CREST formed a partnership to rapidly evaluate and manage patients who arrive at KP Northern California emergency rooms with sudden vision loss. “This team of visionary physicians has successfully designed and operationalized a groundbreaking pathway, which aligns stroke neurology and ophthalmology in a way that is life altering for patients,” says Dr. Monica Kendrick, physician in chief at KP San Francisco.