Joshua R. Sonett, MD, FACS
Dr. Joshua R. Sonett is a thoracic surgeon, oncologist, and Chief of General Thoracic Surgery at Columbia Surgery at New York-Presbyterian in New York. He is also the Director of the Price Family Center for Comprehensive Chest Care, Lung and Esophageal Center. He has earned a reputation for his multidisciplinary treatment of lung and esophageal malignancies, as well as pleural mesothelioma.[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]
Dr. Sonett is currently a general thoracic surgeon at Columbia in New York. He sees patients at the Herbert Irving Pavilion in New York City and Columbia Doctors in Englewood, New Jersey.
He is the Edward C. and Anne K. Weiskopf Professor of Surgical Oncology at Columbia University Medical Center, Chief of General Thoracic Surgery, and the Director of the Price Family Center for Comprehensive Chest Care, Lung and Esophageal Center.
Dr. Sonett is a leader in the minimally invasive treatment of thoracic malignancies. He and his team have created new techniques for the use of Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery and incorporated these protocols into combination therapies with chemotherapy and radiation. Dr. Sonett is credited with having made the Thoracic Surgery section at Columbia University Medical Center one of the best in the country.
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]
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. These have 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
