Seema Sonnad, PhD

Dr. Sonnad is an Associate Professor and Director of Outcomes Research in the Department of Surgery, Associate Scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI), all at the University of Pennsylvania.  She received her PhD in Health Services and Policy Analysis and is interested in a broad range of interdisciplinary and collaborative health services research, including research involving collection of primary data.  Prior to obtaining her PhD, Dr. Sonnad co-founded a medical diagnostics start-up company and participated in clinical research leading to the approval of several in vitro diagnostic test products.  She has participated in research leading to over 90 peer reviewed publications, including work in surgical outcomes, women in academic medicine, technology diffusion, meta-analysis and guidelines implementation.  In addition to her research, Dr. Sonnad teaches biostatistics for the CCEB certificate program in clinical research and for as many student, resident and faculty groups as she can persuade to listen. 

Seema Sonnad, PhD
Project Director
Center for Medical Technology Policy
seema.sonnad@cmtpnet.org