1. Sally L Satel was born on January 9,1956 and is an American psychiatrist based in Washington, DC She is a lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine, a visiting professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and an author.
Sally Satel received a kidney on March 4,2006, from writer Virginia Postrel, after being diagnosed in 2004 with chronic kidney failure.
Sally Satel wrote an article in The New York Times chronicling her experience of searching for an organ donor.
Sally Satel completed her residency in psychiatry at Yale University between 1988 and 1993.
In 1993 and 1994, Sally Satel was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow with the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
Sally Satel is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.
In February 2019, Columbus Monthly reported that a non-profit set up by Hillbilly Elegy author JD Vance called Our Ohio Renewal was sponsoring Sally Satel to take a one year residency in southern Ohio, with the Ironton-Lawrence Community Action Agency, based in areas along the Ohio River near Portsmouth, Ohio.
Sally Satel served on the advisory committee of the Center for Mental Health Services of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Sally Satel is considered a political conservative, a description she rejects.
Sally Satel argues that incorporating social justice into the mission of medicine diverts attention and resources from the effort to prevent and combat disease for everyone.
Sally Satel signed an April 2014 statement in Real Clear Politics supporting legally recognizing same-sex marriage but opposing any penalties against those who do "dissent" from this position.