Seema S. Sonnad - Research

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Seema S. Sonnad, Ph.D.
Research

Current Research

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.

Current Research
01/01/05 - 12/31/14	University of Pennsylvania DEcIDE Research Center

07/01/07 - 06/30/12	Cardiac Surgery Techniques to Treat Ventricular and Aortic Remodeling

01/01/09 - 12/31/11	A Conference Grant for Social Programming on Decision Making in Cancer

07/01/09 - 06/30/14	Systemic Molecular Therapy for Muscular Dystrophy

01/01/11 - 12/31/11	Physician Preferences for CER evidence

01/01/10 - 12/31/11	Transforming Academic Culture for Women

Past Research
01/01/95 - 01/01/96	Iodinated Contrast Guidelines Implementation Project (Dissertation Support Grant)

01/01/96 - 01/01/99	Cost and Quality of Life in Patients Receiving Implant-able Defibrillators or Amiodarone Therapy for Arrhythmia

01/01/96 - 01/01/98	Physician Acceptance and Implementation of Cesarean Section Guidelines

01/01/99 - 01/01/00	Cost-Effectiveness of the New CDC Guidelines for HIV Counseling and Testing

01/01/99 - 01/01/00	Cost-Effectiveness of PAP Screening after Total Hysterectomy for Benign Disease

01/01/00 - 01/01/01	Effect of Whipple Surgery on Quality of Life for Pancreatic Cancer Patients

01/01/00 - 01/01/01	Outcomes after Parathyroidectomy

01/01/00 - 01/01/01	Understanding Prescription Medication Cost Growth

01/01/04 - 01/01/05	Effects of Technology on Health Care Cost Growth

01/01/04 - 01/01/05	Racial Differences in Innovativeness Among Primary Care Patients at the VA

09/01/04 - 08/31/06	Role of Technology in Health Care Cost Growth

07/01/05 - 06/30/08	Attitudes Towards Innovation And New Medical Technology

01/01/06 - 12/31/07	Better Decisions, Better Care: Advancing Decision Support to Improve Health Care

06/25/09 - 06/25/10	Diffusion and Disparities in Utilization of Percutaneous Breast Biopsy

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