Sonny Dhanani, Western University

Research

Propsective Health Services Research Health Systems Improvement Organ Donation

Latest papers

Resumption of Cardiac Activity after Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Measures
New England Journal of Medicine · 2021 · first author
Canadian Guidelines for Controlled Pediatric Donation After Circulatory Determination of Death—Summary Report*
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine · 2017
Serum Biomarkers Help Predict Attention Problems in Critically Ill Children With Traumatic Brain Injury
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine · 2016

All 8 publications

Latest funding

Building a national platform for trust-preserving implementation of normothermic regional perfusion in deceased organ donation in Canada
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$745,872
The Neurologic Physiology after Removal of Therapy (NeuPaRT) Study
CIHR · 2021 · Principal investigator
$684,676
Hospital Donation Physicians: Building an Evaluation Framework
CIHR · 2014 · Principal investigator
$9,730

All 3 grants and awards

8 publications.

01

Resumption of Cardiac Activity after Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Measures

Hornby L, Hogue M, Baker A, Beed S, Boyd JG, Chandler JA, D’Aragon F, Doig CJ, Duska F, Friedrich JO

New England Journal of Medicine2021130 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa2022713 PMID: W3125903604

02

Canadian Guidelines for Controlled Pediatric Donation After Circulatory Determination of Death—Summary Report*

Weiss MJ, Hornby L, Rochwerg B, van Manen M, Dhanani S, Sivarajan VB, Appleby A, Bennett M, Buchman D, Farrell C

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine201763 citations

DOI: 10.1097/pcc.0000000000001320

03

Serum Biomarkers Help Predict Attention Problems in Critically Ill Children With Traumatic Brain Injury

Wilkinson AA, Simic N, Frndova H, Taylor MJ, Choong K, Fraser D, Campbell C, Dhanani S, Kuehn S, Beauchamp MH

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine201615 citations

DOI: 10.1097/pcc.0000000000000752

04

Frequency, Composition, and Predictors of In-Transit Critical Events During Pediatric Critical Care Transport.

Singh JM, Gunz AC, Dhanani S, Aghari M, MacDonald RD

Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies2016

DOI: 10.1097/pcc.0000000000000919 PMID: 27505717

05

The authors reply.

Dhanani S, Hornby L, Shemie SD, Young B

Critical care medicine2015First author

DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000000995 PMID: 25978171

06

Identifying Significant and Relevant Events During Pediatric Transport

Gunz AC, Dhanani S, Whyte H, Menon K, Foster JR, Parker MJ, McNally JD

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine201424 citations

DOI: 10.1097/pcc.0000000000000171

07

Vital signs after cardiac arrest following withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy: a multicenter prospective observational study.

Dhanani S, Hornby L, Ward R, Baker A, Dodek P, Chamber-Evans J, Fowler R, Friedrich JO, Gow RM, Kutsogiannis DJ, Mcintyre L, Momoli F, Morin K, Ramsay T, Scales D, Writer H, Yildirim S, Young B, Shemie S, Canadian Critical Care Trials Group and in collaboration with the Bertram Loeb Chair and Research Consortium in Organ and Tissue Donation

Critical care medicine2014First author

DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000000417 PMID: 24810533

08

The authors reply.

Dhanani S, Young B, Shemie S

Critical care medicine2014First author

DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000000572 PMID: 25226146

Building a national platform for trust-preserving implementation of normothermic regional perfusion in deceased organ donation in Canada

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Weijer, Charles E; Lingard, Lorelei A; Slessarev, Marat; Weiss, Matthew

Keywords: Educational Resource Development; Ethics; Ethics Analysis; Implementation; Innovation; Normothermic Regional Perfusion; Organ Donation; Organ Transplantation; Qualitative Research

$745,872

The Neurologic Physiology after Removal of Therapy (NeuPaRT) Study

Principal investigatorCIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Gofton, Teneille E; Dhanani, Sonny; Meade, Maureen O; Slessarev, Marat

Keywords: Propsective

$684,676

Hospital Donation Physicians: Building an Evaluation Framework

Principal investigatorCIHR2014Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Garg, Amit; Gavsie, Ronnie; Dhanani, Sonny

Keywords: Health Services Research; Health Systems Improvement; Organ Donation

$9,730

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Bram Rochwerg and Frederick D'Aragon: 15 shared papers
Sonny Dhanani and Sonny Dhanani: 14 shared papers
Sonny Dhanani and Sonny Dhanani: 12 shared papers
Bram Rochwerg and Bram Rochwerg: 11 shared papers
Bram Rochwerg and Sonny Dhanani: 9 shared papers
Sonny Dhanani and Sonny Dhanani: 8 shared papers
Sonny Dhanani and Sonny Dhanani: 6 shared papers
Sonny Dhanani and Frederick D'Aragon: 6 shared papers
Sonny Dhanani and Sonny Dhanani: 6 shared papers
Anne-Marie Guerguerian and Sonny Dhanani: 5 shared papers
Sonny Dhanani and Sonny Dhanani: 5 shared papers
Sonny Dhanani and Sonny Dhanani: 5 shared papers
Sonny Dhanani and Sonny Dhanani: 5 shared papers
Craig Campbell and Craig Campbell: 5 shared papers
Bram Rochwerg and Damon Scales: 4 shared papers
Franco Momoli and Craig Campbell: 4 shared papers
Andrew Baker and Sonny Dhanani: 4 shared papers
Anne-Marie Guerguerian and Craig Campbell: 4 shared papers
Bram Rochwerg and Andrew Seely: 3 shared papers
Douglas Fraser and Anne-Marie Guerguerian: 3 shared papers
Douglas Fraser and Craig Campbell: 3 shared papers
Andrew Baker and Damon Scales: 3 shared papers
Sonny Dhanani and Sonny Dhanani: 3 shared papers
Sonny Dhanani and Sonny Dhanani: 3 shared papers
Sonny Dhanani and George Isac: 3 shared papers
Andrew Seely and Andrew Seely: 3 shared papers
Andrew Baker and Sonny Dhanani: 2 shared papers
Andrew Baker and Frederick D'Aragon: 2 shared papers
Sonny Dhanani and Damon Scales: 2 shared papers
Andrew Seely and Andrew Seely: 2 shared papers
Andrew Seely and Andrew Seely: 2 shared papers
Andrew Seely and Andrew Seely: 2 shared papers
Andrew Seely and Andrew Seely: 2 shared papers
Bram Rochwerg and Cynthia Cupido: 1 shared paper
Bram Rochwerg and Sonny Dhanani: 1 shared paper
Bram Rochwerg and Daniel Buchman: 1 shared paper
Bram Rochwerg and Darren Freed: 1 shared paper
Bram Rochwerg and George Isac: 1 shared paper
Bram Rochwerg and Anne Dipchand: 1 shared paper
Cynthia Cupido and Sonny Dhanani: 1 shared paper
Cynthia Cupido and Sonny Dhanani: 1 shared paper
Cynthia Cupido and Daniel Buchman: 1 shared paper
Cynthia Cupido and Darren Freed: 1 shared paper
Cynthia Cupido and Bram Rochwerg: 1 shared paper
Cynthia Cupido and Anne Dipchand: 1 shared paper
Franco Momoli and Andrew Baker: 1 shared paper
Franco Momoli and Sonny Dhanani: 1 shared paper
Douglas Fraser and Sonny Dhanani: 1 shared paper
Douglas Fraser and Craig Campbell: 1 shared paper
Derek So and Andrew Baker: 1 shared paper
Derek So and Sonny Dhanani: 1 shared paper
Derek So and Andrew Seely: 1 shared paper
Derek So and Andrew Seely: 1 shared paper
Derek So and George Isac: 1 shared paper
Anne-Marie Guerguerian and Sonny Dhanani: 1 shared paper
Anne-Marie Guerguerian and Craig Campbell: 1 shared paper
Sonny Dhanani and Andrew Seely: 1 shared paper
Sonny Dhanani and Daniel Buchman: 1 shared paper
Sonny Dhanani and Darren Freed: 1 shared paper
Sonny Dhanani and Andrew Seely: 1 shared paper
Sonny Dhanani and Frederick D'Aragon: 1 shared paper
Sonny Dhanani and Andrew Seely: 1 shared paper
Sonny Dhanani and Bram Rochwerg: 1 shared paper
Sonny Dhanani and Craig Campbell: 1 shared paper
Sonny Dhanani and Andrew Seely: 1 shared paper
Sonny Dhanani and George Isac: 1 shared paper
Sonny Dhanani and Anne Dipchand: 1 shared paper
Sonny Dhanani and Craig Campbell: 1 shared paper

Pediatrics
Medicine
Critical Care Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Neurosurgery
Human Kinetics
Department of Paediatrics
Other

1 shared papers, latest 2014

Karen Li-mei Choong

Pediatrics

1 shared papers, latest 2016

Anne-Marie Guerguerian

Pediatrics

1 shared papers, latest 2016

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Propsective Dear Professor Dhanani, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Resumption of Cardiac Activity after Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Measures" (2021), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "The Neurologic Physiology after Removal of Therapy (NeuPaRT) Study" (2021), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]