From Northern Roots to Global Impact — Dr. Sonny Thiara, MD’14, is redefining critical care through research, leadership, and heart.
Sonny Thiara graduated from the NMP in 2014 and went on to complete an Internal Medicine residency (UBC), fellowship in Critical Care Medicine (UBC), fellowship in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (Melbourne) and an MPH in Clinical Epidemiology (Harvard). He currently works as a clinician-scientist at Vancouver General Hospital and as an Intensivist in Nanaimo. He continues to work with Northern Health as the Medical Lead for Critical Care for Northern Health. Sonny has a research grant from the Heart and Stroke Association exploring the association of neurological injury with ECMO.
What is a favourite memory or biggest takeway from your time in the NMP?
My favourite memories is the intimate class sizes and the time spent joking with classmates in between sessions in the hallways of UNBC.
What is your current role and what do you find most interesting about your career?
I currently have 5 jobs (Nanaimo ICU, Vancouver General ICU, Northern Health Medical Lead, VCHRI Clinician Scientist and international fellow program director) and what I find most interesting is working alongside motivated colleagues and that feeling of being part of exceptional team experiences.
Where do you find inspiration?
I find the most inspiration from my family. Knowing the great lengths my family took to put me in a position to have the life I have inspires me to be a similar role model to my family.
What is one thing you hope to accomplish?
I hope I can love my job and feel grateful to be in a position of service for my whole career. I hope the passion I have to be a physician never diminishes and that I will be forced to retire because I want to keep working.
What do you enjoy doing outside of work?
I spend time with my son Raf playing sports and I am currently training for the Toronto Marathon.
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