Clinical Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, UCLA
Voluntary Medical Director, FNS Sexual Assault Examination Program
Los Angeles, CA

Dr. Carolyn Joy Sachs is an academic emergency physician and Clinical Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UCLA. She earned her medical degree through the Honors Program in Medical Education at Northwestern University before completing her emergency medicine residency and research fellowship at the UCLA Emergency Medicine Center, where she has remained on faculty as an educator and clinician. In addition to her clinical practice in the emergency department, she has a dedicated interest in physician well-being, serving on the UCLA Physician Health and Wellness Committee and as faculty advisor for the UCLA/Olive View Emergency Medicine Residency Wellness Committee.

A recognized authority on violence against women, Dr. Sachs centers her academic research and advocacy on sexual assault and intimate partner violence (IPV), authoring numerous peer-reviewed publications and book chapters on these subjects. For more than two decades, she has served as chair of the UCLA Intimate Partner Violence Committee. Dr. Sachs also serves as the voluntary Medical Director for a regional forensic sexual assault examination program, which oversees more than 1,200 emergent forensic evaluations annually for adult and pediatric survivors in Southern California. An accomplished speaker, she lectures nationally and internationally on intimate partner violence, acute forensic medical care, provider wellness, and emergency medicine practice.