Dr. DeSandre is the Chief of Palliative and Supportive Care at Grady Memorial Hospital and Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Division of Palliative Medicine, and the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. His interests include developing primary Palliative Care skills in Emergency Medicine, creating collaborative opportunities for Palliative Care clinicians and Organ Donation clinicians to improve end-of-life care, and using visual arts and humanities to support critical thinking and well-being among healthcare professionals. 
 
He has served on the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Test Writing Taskforce for the American Board of Internal Medicine. At Emory University, he is the former Program Director of the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program. He teaches and currently provides the Palliative Medicine didactic and clinical curricula for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program. 
 
He serves as regular faculty for both the NCI-sponsored “Education in Palliative and End of Life Care-Emergency Medicine” (EPEC-EM) program through Northwestern University, Chicago, and for the Master of Science in Palliative Medicine program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. He is also the editor of the Oxford University Press book “Palliative Aspects of Emergency Care.” 
 
He has served on the National Donor Management Leadership Council for The Organ Donation and Transplantation Leadership Alliance. He is the current Chair of the Professional Development and Clinical Practice Committee for LifeLink of Georgia. 
 
He is an alumnus and former faculty member of the Harvard Macy Institute Fellowship in Art-Museum-based Health Professions Education and is certified in Advanced Visual Thinking Strategies. Dr. DeSandre brings these educational experiences to healthcare professionals locally, regionally, and nationally.