Sandra R. Shuffett, MD

Sandra R Shuffett , MD , “Sandy”, adopted Kentucky as her home state in 2011. She was born and raised in Baltimore Maryland. During high school she was a summer exchange student to Japan with Youth for Understanding. She has two Bachelor of Science degrees from Emory University in Biology and Psychology, and a Master of Science degree in Physiology and Biophysics from Georgetown University. In 1987, she received the Geriatric Student Summer Fellowship in the Department of Surgical Neurology, NINCDC, of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Shuffett graduated from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1990. She completed her surgical internship as well as one year of Neurosurgery Residency at University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston prior to changing her field of practice to Radiology. She completed a Neuroradiology Research Fellowship as well as four years of Radiology Residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She then moved her family to Charlottesville, Virginia, where she completed a fellowship in Thoracoabdominal imaging at the University of Virginia.

After completing her training, Dr. Shuffett has been employed as a general radiologist in private practice, in addition to holding academic appointments in Diagnostic Radiology and Breast Imaging. Prior to relocating to Kentucky, she was a faculty member at the Emory University School of Medicine from 2004 to 2010 in the Department of Breast Imaging. During her time at Emory, she served as the Director of Breast Imaging at Grady Memorial Hospital from 2004-2006, as well as the Director of the Breast Imaging Fellowship Program from 2007-2009. She was honored to have also served as a Board Examiner for the American Board of Radiology in Breast Imaging.

Dr. Shuffett is presently employed as a Breast Imaging Radiologist at Baptist Healthcare in Lexington with a phenomenal team of physicians, technologists, and nurses. She serves on the Breast Program Committee at Baptist Health Lexington and is an active member of the Kentucky Medical Association (KMA). In August 2017 she completed the KMA Community Connector Leadership Program.

Dr. Shuffett served on the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure from 2017 to 2021, elected by her peers to serve as President for the last two years and the Kentucky Commission on Women. She presently serves on the Federation of State Medical Boards. 

In October 2018 Sandy was honored as Dean Dorton Physician of the Year during the MediStar Awards, held at the Muhammed Ali Center in Louisville. The award is presented to a physician who has shown outstanding leadership and vision and has contributed to their workplace, leaving a lasting legacy.

In May of 2021, Dr. Shuffett was conferred the designation of Fellow of the American College of Radiology.  

In the spring of 2022 she was appointed as an expert consultant to the Food and Drug Administrators Center for Devices and Radiological Health. 

Dr. Shuffett is very grateful to have the opportunity to belong to an academic community and to serve the Commonwealth of Kentucky.