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Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
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Chris Sonnenday is the Darrell A. Campbell, Jr, M.D., Collegiate Professor of Transplant Surgery at the University of Michigan, and Transplant Center Director for UM Health. He also serves Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery, Surgical Director of Living Donor Liver Transplantation, and Surgical Director of the Multidisciplinary Liver Tumor Program for Michigan Medicine. Dr. Sonnenday's clinical interests focus on liver transplantation including liver donation, and the treatment of liver cancer.
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Fellow in Surgical Oncology and Assistant Chief of ServiceJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 3400 N. Charles St., 2008
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Fellow in TransplantationThe University of Michigan, Department of Surgery, 2008
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Senior Resident in SurgeryJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 3400 N. Charles St., 2005
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Research FellowJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 3400 N. Charles St., 2003
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Resident in SurgeryJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 3400 N. Charles St., 2000
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Intern in SurgeryJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 3400 N. Charles St., 1998
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Center MemberInstitute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation
• Preservation strategies for deceased donor organs prior to transplantation
• Multi-modality therapy of advanced hepatobiliary and pancreatic malignancies
• Transplant utilization and allocation
• Racial and geographic disparity in complex surgical care, including transplantation
• Donor and recipient selection in liver tranplantation
• Frailty as a metric in patient selection for liver transplantation and complex surgical care
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De Goeij FHC, De Meijer V, Mergental H, Guarrera JV, Asthana S, Ghinolfi D, Boteon YL, Selzner N, Kalisvaart M, Pulitano C, Sonnenday C, Martins PN, Berlakovich G, Schlegel A. Transplantation, 2024 Jun 1; 108 (6): 1296 - 1307.Journal ArticleChallenges With the Implementation of Machine Perfusion in Clinical Liver Transplantation.
DOI:10.1097/TP.0000000000004872 PMID: 38057969 -
Diaz S, VanWinkle C, Roney E, Kumar SS, Douville NJ, Englesbe M, Sonnenday CJ, Waits S, Schaefer SL. Liver Transpl, 2024 Jun 1; 30 (6): 661 - 667.Journal ArticleUniversal intraoperative systemic heparin administration during liver transplantation: A case series.
DOI:10.1097/LVT.0000000000000329 PMID: 38190234 -
Sonnenday CJ. Surg Clin North Am, 2024 Feb; 104: 183 - 196.ChapterLiver Transplantation for Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma.
DOI:10.1016/j.suc.2023.09.004 PMID: 37953035 -
Kaplan A, Aby ES, Scott S, Sonnenday C, Fox A, Mathur A, Olthoff K, Heimbach J, Ladin K, Emamaullee J, NALLDIG Consortium . Am J Transplant, 2024 May 18;Journal ArticleFinancial toxicity in living donor liver transplantation: A call to action for financial neutrality.
DOI:10.1016/j.ajt.2024.05.012 PMID: 38763318 -
Barrett M, Sonnenday CJ. Liver Transpl, 2023 Nov 1; 29 (11): 1234 - 1241.Journal ArticleCAQ Corner: Deceased donor selection and management.
DOI:10.1097/LVT.0000000000000242 PMID: 37560989 -
Chapman WC, Barbas AS, D'Alessandro AM, Vianna R, Kubal CA, Abt P, Sonnenday C, Barth R, Alvarez-Casas J, Yersiz H, Eckhoff D, Cannon R, Genyk Y, Sher L, Singer A, Feng S, Roll G, Cohen A, Doyle MB, Sudan DL, Al-Adra D, Khan A, Subramanian V, Abraham N, Olthoff K, Tekin A, Berg L, Coussios C, Morris C, Randle L, Friend P, Knechtle SJ. Ann Surg, 2023 Nov 1; 278 (5): e912 - e921.Journal ArticleNormothermic Machine Perfusion of Donor Livers for Transplantation in the United States: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
DOI:10.1097/SLA.0000000000005934 PMID: 37389552 -
Breeden J, Aslam A, Lin T, Hussain H, Mervak B, Shampain K, Westerhoff M, Parikh N, Sonnenday C, Lawrence T, Masotti M, Owen D, Mendiratta-Lala M. 2023 Oct 7;PresentationLI-RADS Treatment Response Algorithm v2023 versus v2018: Assessing Diagnostic Performance and Inter-reader Agreement in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treated with Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy
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Hughes DL, Pan J, Answine AR, Sonnenday CJ, Waits SA, Kumar SS, Menees DS, Wanamaker B, Bhave NM, Tincopa MA, Fontana RJ, Sharma P. Liver Transpl, 2023 Sep 1; 29 (9): 970 - 978.Journal ArticlePositron emission tomography myocardial perfusion imaging (PET MPI) findings predictive of post-liver transplant major adverse cardiac events.
DOI:10.1097/LVT.0000000000000118 PMID: 36879556