Joshua R. Sonett, MD, FACS
Dr. Joshua R. Sonett is a thoracic surgeon and oncologist at Columbia Surgery at New York-Presbyterian in New York. He is the Chief of the Thoracic Surgery Section and the Director of the Price Family Center for Comprehensive Chest Care, Lung and Esophageal Center. Dr. Sonett is credited with having made the Thoracic Surgery section at Columbia University Medical Center one of the best in the country. He has earned a reputation for his multidisciplinary treatment of lung and esophageal malignancies, as well as pleural mesothelioma.[1]
Dr. Sonett is a leader in minimally invasive treatment of thoracic malignancies. He and his team have created new techniques for the use of Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery and incorporate these protocols into combination therapies with chemotherapy and radiation. He is also a leader in multi-modality therapies for lung and esophageal cancers and a pioneer in endo-bronchial palliation of benign and malignant airway stenosis.[1]
Education and Career
Dr. Sonett received his medical degree from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University Medical School. He completed his surgical residency at the University of Massachusetts and his Thoracic Surgery fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.[1]
Professional Memberships and Activities
Dr. Sonett is a member of several professional medical organizations, including:[1]
- The New York Thoracic Society
- The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
- Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
- American Association for Thoracic Surgeons
- Cardiothoracic Surgery Network
- Eastern Cardiothoracic Surgical Society
- European Society of Thoracic Surgeons
- General Thoracic Surgical Club
- International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Southern Thoracic Surgical Association
Research
In addition to patient care, Dr. Sonett is an active researcher. In addition to clinical trials designed to improve outcomes of multi-modality treatment, he and his team have worked to alleviate the shortage of organs for donation by developing extended donor criteria for organ donations that has proven extremely successful, with a 95% survival rate after one year and 83% after three years.[1] He has been an invited speaker principal and co-investigator of numerous clinical trials and the author of more than 100 publications in renowned journals including the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplant.
His recent publications include:[2]
How I manage differential gas exchange in peripheral venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Richa Asija, Justin A Fried, Eric C Siddall, Dana A Mullin, Cara L Agerstrand, Daniel Brodie, Joshua R Sonett, Philippe H Lemaitre, Darryl Abrams>; Critical Care. 2023 Oct 27
Colonic interposition in esophagectomy: an ACS-NSQIP study. Beatrix Hyemin Choi, James Church, Joshua Sonett, Ravi Pokala Kiran>; Surgical Endoscopy. 2023 Dec 1
Mortality in Patients with Obesity and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Receiving Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: The Multicenter ECMObesity Study. Darya Rudym, Tài Pham, Craig R Rackley, Giacomo Grasselli, Michaela Anderson, Matthew R Baldwin, Jeremy Beitler, Cara Agerstrand, Alexis Serra, Lisle A Winston, Desire…>; American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2023 Sep 15
