Dr. Sonny Dhanani trained at the University of British Columbia, the Hospital for Sick Children, and the Great Ormond Street Hospital. He is the chief of the pediatric intensive care unit at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) in Ottawa and Professor (Pediatrics) at the University of Ottawa. He is the Ontario Health Pediatric Critical Care lead.
Dr. Dhanani is the Associate Director for donation research for the Canadian Donation and Transplant Research Program. He is the Chair of the Canadian Donation Physician Network, Chair of Canadian Blood Services’ national Deceased Donation Advisory Committee, and steering committee member of Health Canada’s Organ Donation and Transplantation Collaborative. He has previously been the Chief Medical Officer for Trillium Gift of Life Ontario
His own area of focus is leading international research pertaining to practices and standards for determining death after circulatory arrest for the purposes of donation. He is advancing research in predictive modelling to identify optimal donors and increasing organ utilization.
In this week's core session of Grand Rounds, he reviews the organ and tissue donation successes and challenges with relevance to pediatrics.