Dr. David Sandberg serves as Chief Workforce Officer at Covenant House Texas, a position he started in November, 2025 after a distinguished career as a pediatric neurosurgeon. Until June 2025, Dr. Sandberg served as Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at McGovern Medical School, Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed neurosurgery residency training at Weill/Cornell Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital. After residency, he completed fellowship training in pediatric neurosurgery at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.  After eight years on the faculty of the Miller School of Medicine of the University of Miami and Miami Children’s Hospital, he moved to Houston in 2012. Dr. Sandberg has a longstanding interest in neurosurgery in low- and middle- income countries. In 2019, he was awarded the Humanitarian Award from the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, one of the highest honors bestowed by this organization. In 2025, Dr. Sandberg published “Brain and Heart: The Triumphs and Struggles of a Pediatric Neurosurgeon.”