Dr. Sonnad's current research includes studying patients’ attitudes toward medical innovation, physician preferences and knowledge concerning medical and surgical technologies, issues facing women in academic medicine, diffusion of effective and ineffective surgical technologies, patient outcomes following surgical interventions in trauma, transplant, surgical oncology, plastic surgery, and urology. Her overall research interests surround how patients, physicians and health-care systems make decisions about new medical technology and utilizes a range of methods including meta-analysis, survey research, database analysis, and clinical trials.

U01 HL088957-01 07//07 – 06/12
Title:
Cardiac surgery techniques to treat ventricular and aortic remodeling

Goal:
To provide definitive evidence that will guide the best approach to functional MR in heart failure.

Role:
Co-Investigator (PI: Acker)

R01-HL078834-02 04/06 - 03/11
Title:
Ventilator-Induced diaphragm dysfunction

Goal:
To determine if experimental diaphragms will exhibit an up-regulation of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway for protein degradation.

Role:
Co-Investigator (Principal Investigator: Sanford Levine)