sachs joined tulane medical school in november 2007. the university had suffered $900 million in damage from hurricane katrina and lost a third of the medical school faculty. [7] sachs' objectives were to help tulane recover and to fundamentally redesign the medical school and the new orleans healthcare system. sachs created a network of 68 clinics in the new orleans area that by 2010 was treating approximately 200,000 people per year.