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Sonny Dhanani

ResearcherUniversity of Ottawa

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Sonny Dhanani

Researcher

Health Sciences

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
58 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 14 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 4 research grants (4 CIHR), most recently in 2023.

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114

Publications

1,027

Citations

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146

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Grants

Publications by year

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Research

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Organ Donation Health Equity And Policy Lived Experience Organ Transplantation Public Health Messaging Social Determinants Of Health Cardiac Arrest Death

Latest papers

Exploring sources of job satisfaction and work-related stressors experienced by organ and tissue donation coordinators in Canada: a qualitative analysis.
BMJ open · 2026
Complex cases and coordination: Reports from organ donation specialists in Canada.
Intensive & critical care nursing · 2026
Donation Care Work: Family Members' Contributions to Deceased Organ Donation Following Determination of Death Using Circulatory Criteria.
Sociology of health & illness · 2026

All 114 publications

Latest funding

Improving a culture of donation: a Café Scientifique series hosted by the Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program.
CIHR · 2023 · Nominated PI
$7,940
Planning Meeting to Develop an International Interdisciplinary Research Network to Study the Dying Process and Organ Donation after Circulatory Arrest
CIHR · 2016 · Nominated PI
$10,000
Planning Meeting to Develop an International Interdisciplinary Research Network to Study the Determination of Death After Cardiac Arrest
CIHR · 2011 · Nominated PI
$24,930

All 4 grants and awards

114 publications.

Exploring sources of job satisfaction and work-related stressors experienced by organ and tissue donation coordinators in Canada: a qualitative analysis.

Silva E Silva V, Lotherington K, Dhanani S, Dupuis KL, Silva AR

BMJ open2026

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-115616 PMID: 42547231

Complex cases and coordination: Reports from organ donation specialists in Canada.

Silva A, Lotherington K, Dhanani S, Luvizutto J, Silva E Silva V

Intensive & critical care nursing2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2026.104335 PMID: 41548458

Donation Care Work: Family Members' Contributions to Deceased Organ Donation Following Determination of Death Using Circulatory Criteria.

van Beinum A, Gruben V, Sarti AJ, Dhanani S, McKay L, Chandler JA

Sociology of health & illness2026

DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.70257 PMID: 42702846

Prevalence, semiology and neuroimaging of movements in comatose adults at risk of death by neurologic criteria: a prospective cohort study

Neves Briard J, English SW, Fergusson DA, Dhanani S, Lauzier F, Turgeon AF, Ball I, Darvesh S, Titova P, Lebrasseur M

Critical Care2026

DOI: 10.1186/s13054-026-06037-2

Sexual and Gender Minorities in Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation (OTDT): A Survey of Canadian OTDT Health Care Workers

Leeies M, Hrymak C, Mooney O, Vazquez-Grande G, Carta T, Ho J, Christie E, Doucette K, Chandler J, Brodovsky S

Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease2026

DOI: 10.1177/20543581251412804

Understanding the work-related challenges of organ and tissue donation coordinators during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-method study.

Silva E Silva V, Minervini A, Dupuis KL, Lotherington K, Dhanani S, Silva A

BMJ open2025

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-088626 PMID: 39800409

Coping strategies among acute and critical care nurses: a scoping review.

Silva A, Dupuis KL, Lotherington K, Celli J, Kulawic K, Minervini A, Luvizutto J, Dhanani S, Silva E Silva V

Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie2025

DOI: 10.1007/s12630-026-03070-1 PMID: 41718958

Characterizing the physiology of circulatory arrest in humans.

Bird JD, Hornby L, Hirsch-Reinshagen V, Allen CP, Isac G, Gooderham PA, Shemie SD, Dhanani S, Thiara S, Stukas S, Grey R, Foster DA, Maier LE, LeBlanc AE, Kanji HD, Morelli TF, Agbay AM, Wellington CL, Chahal D, Belanger EC, Ren H, Mattu PS, Su S, Hrazdil CT, Percy J, Sangha P, Plewes LV, Sweet DD, Romano KR, Vu EN, Chittock DR, Dhingra VK, Henderson WR, Garraway NR, Morad Hameed S, Finlayson GN, MacLeod DB, Gibbons TD, Ainslie PN, Hoiland RL, Griesdale DE, Ronco JJ, Sekhon MS

Nature medicine2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41591-025-03889-z PMID: 41102468

The relationship between cessation of brain and systemic circulation after withdrawal of life-sustaining measures.

Kolisnyk M, Gofton TE, Norton L, Debicki DB, Scales N, Van Beinum A, Hornby L, Shemie S, Dhanani S, Slessarev M

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajt.2025.06.006 PMID: 40499656

Infant Organ Donation After Death by Circulatory Criteria: A Literature Scoping Review.

St Louis JR, Weiss MJ, Al-Ayass S, Tierney ST, Wright AL, Dhanani S, Widger K

Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies2025

DOI: 10.1097/pcc.0000000000003771 PMID: 40488577

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Sonny Dhanani

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Exploring sources of job satisfaction and work-related stressors experienced by organ and tissue donation coordinators in Canada: a qualitative analysis.

Complex cases and coordination: Reports from organ donation specialists in Canada.

Donation Care Work: Family Members' Contributions to Deceased Organ Donation Following Determination of Death Using Circulatory Criteria.

Prevalence, semiology and neuroimaging of movements in comatose adults at risk of death by neurologic criteria: a prospective cohort study

Sexual and Gender Minorities in Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation (OTDT): A Survey of Canadian OTDT Health Care Workers

Understanding the work-related challenges of organ and tissue donation coordinators during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-method study.

Coping strategies among acute and critical care nurses: a scoping review.

Characterizing the physiology of circulatory arrest in humans.

The relationship between cessation of brain and systemic circulation after withdrawal of life-sustaining measures.

Infant Organ Donation After Death by Circulatory Criteria: A Literature Scoping Review.

Improving a culture of donation: a Café Scientifique series hosted by the Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program.

Planning Meeting to Develop an International Interdisciplinary Research Network to Study the Dying Process and Organ Donation after Circulatory Arrest

Planning Meeting to Develop an International Interdisciplinary Research Network to Study the Determination of Death After Cardiac Arrest

Consensus Conference for a Research Protocol to Study the Determinants of Death After Cardiac Arrest

Frequent collaborators

Maureen Meade

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Vanessa Silva e Silva

Andrew Healey

Karen Burns

Marat Slessarev

Bram Rochwerg

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Deborah Cook

Simon Oczkowski

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Jennifer Chandler

Matthew Weiss

Murdoch Leeies

Frederick D'Aragon

Ian Ball

Teneille Gofton

David Collister

Gregory Knoll

Anne-Marie Guerguerian

Peter Nickerson

Julie Ho

David Collister

Lauralyn McIntyre

Joan Almost

Francois Lamontagne

Shane English

Charles Weijer

Andrew Baker

George Isac

Laveena Munshi

Eddy Fan

David Zorko

Vanessa Gruben

Peter Tanuseputro

Peter Tanuseputro

Matthew Weiss

Russell Schachar

Marat Slessarev