Frank A. Sonnenberg, MD, FACP, FACMI is Professor of Medicine, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, Clinical Professor of Health Informatics UMDNJ, School of Health Related Professions, and Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems, Robert Wood Johnson University Medical Group. In addition, Dr. Sonnenberg is a former Editor-in-Chief, of the journal Medical Decision Making, the official journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making. In March, 2003, Dr. Sonnenberg was named Associate Director of Clinical Informatics of the Informatics Institute of UMDNJ.

Dr. Sonnenberg did his undergraduate studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and earned a BS in Biochemistry with highest honors in 1976. He subsequently earned an MD degree from the UCLA School of Medicine (now the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA) and did a 3 year residency in Internal Medicine at the UCLA Medical Center. He spent a year working with Dr. Robert Brook at Rand in Santa Monica, CA on the Rand Health Insurance Experiment. Subsequently, he moved to Boston where he did a fellowship in Clinical Decision Making and Medical Applications of Computer Science at the New England Medical Center.

He joined the faculty of the Tufts University School of Medicine in 1986 in the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Decision Making. In 1990, he moved to New Jersey and joined the faculty of the UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Dr. Sonnenberg is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the National Board of Medical Examiners and is licensed to practice medicine in New Jersey. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. He is also a member of the Society for Medical Decision Making.

Dr. Sonnenberg’s current activities include clinical practice of primary care internal medicine, overseeing implementation of clinical information systems at UMDNJ, and conducting clinical decision making, pharmacoeconomics and medical informatics research. Dr. Sonnenberg heads a research group with long track record of extramural funding and publication in decision science and informatics research.

Notable accomplishments include election to Phi Beta Kappa, at Stony Brook in 1975, First Prize in the Lee B. Lusted Student Prize Competition, Post doctoral category, awarded at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, and First Independent Research Support and Transition (FIRST) and Research Career Development Awards, both from the National Library of Medicine. Dr. Sonnenberg has been named to Woodward and White’s The Best Doctors in America, twice, in 1998 and 2001. He was co-editor of a book: Chapman GB and Sonnenberg FA, editors. Decision Making in Health Care: Theory, Psychology, and Applications. Cambridge University Press, 2000. He received the Distinguished Service award in 2003 from the Society for Medical Decision Making.