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Miguel A. Sanchez, MD, is an American board-certified pathologist who  specializes in anatomic pathology, clinical pathology and cytopathology. Sanchez is also medical director and chief pathologist of The Leslie Simon Breast Care and Cytodiagnosis Center at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in Englewood, New Jersey. He is best known for his contribution in setting the standards of diagnosis and treatment of breast disease and praised by the United States Congress in 1994.

Education
Sanchez received his medical degree from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1969. Following a short period of practice in internal medicine and cardiology, he emigrated to the USA to complete a training in pathology at Temple University in Philadelphia and at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan, New York City. Then, he received training in fine-needle aspiration biopsy at the Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden in the 1980s.

Medical career
Sanchez has practiced at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center since 1975, as its chief of pathology since 1991, and a member of its board of trustees since 1985. Sanchez holds professorial appointments at both Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (1990 - Present) and New York University. He lectured on the intersection of medicine with the humanities such as music, opera and egyptology. As a result, he has been a member of the paleopathology group of the International Academy of Pathology and the paleopathology association. He has given national and international lectures and talks on breast cancer and the role of the humanities in learning medicine and ancient Egyptian medicine.

Professional affiliations
Sanchez is a Fellow, member or honorary member of the following organizations:
 * International Academy of Pathology.
 * American Society of Cytopathology.
 * Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology.
 * College of American Pathologists.
 * Society for Health and Human Values.
 * Physicians for Social Responsibility.
 * The Susan G. Komen Foundation.
 * International Society of Breast Pathologists.
 * Society of Radiologists of Central America and Panama, 1988.
 * Central American Society of Pathology, 1988.

Publications
Over the last 20 years, Sanchez has contributed to research and published notable academic articles in his field of research. A selection of these publications is as follows:


 * “Prosthesis for the Afterlife in TT16, Luxor, Egypt”. Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt. Vol.50, No.1, January 2014.
 * “Cytologic Findings of Atypical Adenosis of the Breast”. Acta Cytologica. Vol.46, No.2,  2002.


 * “Current issues in breast cytopathology”. American journal of clinical pathology. Vol.113, No.5, 2000.


 * “Analysis of DNA distribution in Kaposi's sarcoma in patients with and without the acquired immune deficiency syndrome”.  Vol.10, No.1,  1988.
 * “Fine-needle aspiration of the breast”. Pathology (Philadelphia, Pa.) Vol.4, No.2, 1996.

Awards and honors
Sanchez has received several national and international awards and distinctions during his career. The most notable of his distinctions are the first Yolanda Oertel Interventional Pathologist of the Year in 2003; the gold medal of the Chinese Academy of Medical Science for his contributions in the first course on AIDS in Beijing. The President of Nicaragua granted him the Medal of Medical Merit and the College of American Pathologists honored him with the 2010 Excellence in Education Award.


 * Gold medal of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 1987.
 * Zonta International Award for Breast Cancer Care, October 10, 1995.
 * American Cancer Society Award, March 1997.
 * Susan G. Komen Foundation Honoree, Annual Pink Tie Ball, 2004.
 * Nicaraguan Medal of Medical Merit, 2004.
 * The Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology, Yolanda Oertel Interventional Cytopathologist Award, February 2005.
 * The Kennedy Funding Invitational.
 * Excellence in Education Award from the College of American Pathologists (CAP), June 2010.
 * Top doctors for women's health (1st to 14th editions).
 * Newsweek Health: Top Cancer Doctors.
 * New York Best Doctors.