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David I. Sandberg, MD, FACS, FAAP, is a fellowship-trained pediatric neurosurgeon who is the director of pediatric neurosurgery at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). He has a special clinical and research interest in pediatric brain tumors, and specializes in minimally invasive endoscopic approaches to brain tumors, hydrocephalus and arachnoid cysts, as well as surgical management of arteriovenous malformations of the brain, congenital spinal anomalies, spasticity and craniofacial anomalies.
In addition to his appointment at McGovern Medical School, Dr. Sandberg is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Neurosurgery and Division of Pediatrics at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and serves as co-director of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Program at MD Anderson Children’s Cancer Hospital. The recipient of numerous research grants, he has pioneered novel treatment approaches for pediatric brain tumors, and he is principal investigator of several clinical trials currently being conducted at McGovern Medical School and MD Anderson Cancer Center investigating direct administration of chemotherapy into the fourth ventricle for treatment of childhood malignant posterior fossa tumors.
A graduate of Harvard University, Dr. Sandberg received his medical degree at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed neurosurgery training at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University/New York Presbyterian Hospital. During residency, he was awarded the Resident Traveling Fellowship in Pediatric Neurosurgery by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons, which he completed at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. He then completed pediatric neurosurgery fellowship training at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Before joining McGovern Medical School, Dr. Sandberg served as associate professor of clinical neurological surgery and pediatrics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Dr. Sandberg is committed to providing superior pediatric neurosurgical care, including:
All patient experience ratings and comments are submitted by actual patients and are received and validated by a leading independent survey company, NRC Health.
Dr David Sandburg is one of the greatest people I have every had the pleasure to meet, and I hope he is celebrated for his retirement!
I'm going to great. Paula is an excellent physician's assistant for Dr. Sandberg. Unfortunately, I don't know her last name, but I've known her for my son's 12 years of life, and she's always been excellent, on point, and caring with my son. I want to make sure I express that. I'm going to greatly miss Dr. Sandberg. I am so blessed to have had him in my son's life for the last five, 12 years. We love him. We will miss him. He had a wonderful bedside manner. He's an excellent surgeon. He was patient, and he listened. Out of everybody on his team, he, and I'm not putting his team down, because his team is also great, but he always listened to me. He always heard me. He always addressed me, as well as my son. My son had his shunt put in, I guess, his last shunt put in when he was four, I believe.
Very good, they treated her very well. I liked the attention they gave her.
Dr. Sandberg made us felt heard and just a wonderful individual. We will miss seeing him
Everyone was very very nice and quick The nurses the doctor around of the best staff I ever met Keep the good work
Hello, I am [...] mother and I am very happy with the medical services provided by Dr. David Sandberg. I am very grateful to the doctor and the nurses are excellent. Everything seems excellent to me and I am very grateful for all the service my son has received. Thank you very much.
We love Dr. Sandberg. He is very compassionate and truly cares about his patients. He is also very calming.
They are awesome every visit
I love dr sandberg seeing him yesterday was a Wonderful time spend with him. I'm gonna miss him forever. He is a good doctor.
Great Doctor
Dr. Sandberg and his entire team were fantastic from beginning to end throughout this whole entire process. Very helpful, very detailed and gave us a great explanation as to what each step was going to be with our son and how everything was looking and helped us to understand the severity of his situation and what he needed to get done. Throughout our stay at Memorial Hermann, he was extremely helpful and just checking in on us and that was his staff. They did a great job of making sure that he was getting proper care and any questions that we had were answered. Overall, a great team to work with and I would definitely recommend them.
We are so thankful for Dr. Sandberg and his team. They are wonderful.
I had a wonderful experience with Dr. Sandberg! Thank you!
wait time too long
Dr Sandberg and his whole group is the best!!! Love them all so much!
The staff is always nice,caring and professional....Dr.Sandberg and his team is magnificent!!!! And has been that way since my daughter was a little baby she will soon be 18yrs old and there have been absolutely no change in how sweet and caring the staff has been!!!! Paula We love her dearly and we are so blessed to have her apart of my daughter care.... We would like to thank Dr.Sandberg and his entire team/staff on this journey we definitely couldn't have done it without them!!!!! I love them dearly! Definitely 10/10
Dr. Sandberg was very kind and treated us so well! All the staff were great.
Very good attention and dedication, thank you.
To thank all the attention and care of my little girl .
The attention was very good, from the receptionist, to the nurses and doctors, everyone was very kind and treated us very well. We liked it very much.
At the end of the visit, my next appointment was scheduled without consulting me. I raised a dissent and she canceled it. I have always made my own appointments after consulting my callendar. I did not like the presumption of my time to tell me when the appointment is without asking.
I just want to give the staff and Dr. Sandberg a kudos. They did a phenomenal job. Seeing my son this week, everyone was very kind, very nice, and very supportive. So you know, I know people usually don't give positive comments, but I wanted to make sure that they know that they're doing a great job and how thankful we are that our paths From the moment I walked in to the moment I walked out, we were welcomed and everyone was very kind. Thank you. Keep doing strong work.
Well, I loved the service, everyone was very friendly.
Hi, I just wanted to say that Dr. Sandberg means a lot to my family because of how well he pursued my daughter's cancer and how aggressive he was in treating it and getting it better. If it wasn't for Dr. Sandberg and his team and his insight on what we should do next, I don't know what we would be, where we would be, and I am really happy with MD Anderson's outcome and I really appreciate everything they've done for my family and I thank them tremendously and I'm really happy. UT Health, all hospitals down here in Texas, I'm just really happy with Dr. Sandberg's team and I hope you can hear this.
Everyone is very friendly
I am very happy with my experience.
Excellent
Thank you.
We appreciate every single person we encountered during our visit. It means the world to know my son's health and future is a priority to those who are treating him. It is also VERY helpful in stressful situations when the staff always has positive attitudes and treats every question and concern with care. I am forever grateful that God chose Dr. Sandberg care for my son because he is without a doubt - the best!
All staff, starting from check in, were polite and amicable and patient and truly seemed to care. Dr. Sandberg has excellent bed side manners, is fully engaged during conversations and explains throughly. He gave us confidence in his surgical skill in how he reiterated that he has done this many times and all will be well. He is compassionate and caring.