Dr. Jay P. Sanford joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 1957. During his time at UT Southwestern, Dr. Sanford served as chief of the Infectious Diseases division, Diagnostic Microbiology Laboratory director, Medical Education for National Defense (MEND) program director, and was a former president of the medical staff at Parkland Memorial Hospital. In 1975, Dr. Sanford left to become the founding dean of the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland. An internationally recognized authority on infectious diseases, Dr. Sanford was the author of "The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy," now in its 47th edition (as of 2017). He was elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1981.