Sandler, a retired physician and President of MAS Strategic Consulting LLC, was appointed to the Board of Trustees by Governor Snyder on January 26, 2017, for an eight year term. He was a diagnostic radiologist for 34 years at Henry Ford Hospital and then was in corporate administration for five years. Within the radiology department, Sandler was at times Director of Ultrasound, Vice-Chair and Interim Chair. Active in organized medicine, he was president of the Michigan Radiological Society (MRS), Wayne County Medical Society, Michigan State Medical Society, and the Wayne State University School of Medicine (WSUSOM) Alumni Board, as well as being an AMA delegate and a member of the AMA PAC Board. Sandler also served on the Certificate of Need Commission for nine years. He has been awarded the Gold Medal of the MRS, the Distinguished Alumni Award of the WSUSOM, and the Special Recognition Award and the Distinguished Alumni Award of the Henry Ford Medical Group. Sandler attended the University of Michigan and obtained his M.D. from WSUSOM. He completed a residency in diagnostic radiology at the University of Michigan hospital. He is married to Kathleen (CMU MA 1986) and has one daughter.