Dr. Larry Sonna is a Pulmonary and Critical Care physician who has a broad experience base that includes work in academic centers, the military, research, extensive locum tenens work, and private practice.
Dr. Sonna is a US Citizen who was raised abroad (Mexico) and speaks Spanish. After completing his college education at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, he was accepted at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, where he did his medical training. This included MD and PhD degrees (completed in 1989), internship in Surgery at Johns Hopkins, residency in Internal Medicine at one of the Johns Hopkins affiliates (Francis Scott Key Medical Center, now called Johns Hopkins Bayview), and fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care (also at Johns Hopkins).
During training, he served honorably in the Maryland Army National Guard and transitioned to active duty Army in 1996. He was stationed at the US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick, MA, and performed both clinical work and research collaborations with Brigham and Women’s Hospital studying human gene expression responses to stress.
In 2005, Dr. Sonna left the military and after a brief trial of private practice, returned to academic medicine at the University of Maryland as an assistant professor in the division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. He worked as an attending physician in the University of Maryland Hospital’s ICU, had some clinical responsibilities at the Baltimore VA Medical Center, and continued his research work.
Dr. Sonna started doing locum tenens work to broaden his clinical experience in 2007. In 2009, he transitioned to a career focused mainly on clinical practice. Through 2022, he worked in a wide variety of hospital settings, including work as a hospitalist, intensivist, and pulmonologist in several different states, in hospitals ranging from LTACHs to referral centers. He also earned an MBA from the University of Kansas, graduating with honors in 2021.
During the COVID pandemic, Dr. Sonna came to New York to help at NYC H+H/Queens. He was so impressed by the care at NYC H+H/Queens that he asked for full-time employment here and has been working full-time with the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care since May 2022.
Larry Sonna, MD