Dr. Larry A. Sonna was born in Illinois, grew up abroad (in Mexico), and did his undergraduate training in Texas (Southern Methodist University, class of 1980). He graduated from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1989 with M.D. and Ph.D. degrees. He did an Internship in General Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital followed by training in Internal Medicine at Francis Scott Key Medical Center in Baltimore (now Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center). He completed a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care at Johns Hopkins in 1996.
Dr. Sonna served in the Maryland Army National Guard during his training and joined the active duty Army in 1996. From 1996 through 2005 he served as a researcher at the US Army Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick Massachusetts, where he did collaborative with the division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Brigham and Women?s Hospital / Harvard Medical School. His research was focused on the genomic responses of human cells to environmental stresses such as heat. As part of this collaboration, he also worked as a Critical Care physician in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at BWH.
After a brief trial of private practice in Richmond, VA, followed by some work as a self-employed scientific consultant, Dr. Sonna accepted a position at UMMC in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine to work in the Medical Intensive Care Unit and to pursue his research interests in human cellular responses to stress.
Dr. Sonna is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, and Critical Care Medicine. His laboratory's work was recognized in 2002 with an Army Research and Development Achievement Award, one of the Army's highest awards for excellence in science and engineering.
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