Loretta Sonnier, MD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Director, Child Track of Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship
Phone
(504) 988-5405
School of Medicine
Dr. Loretta Sonnier

Education & Affiliations

Louisiana State University, 2001, BA in French and BS in Zoology
Université Lyon III, Lyon, France, Certificat FLE (Français Langues Étrangères), 2002
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, 2006, MD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center/University of Cincinnati, Triple Board Training in Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2011
University of Cincinnati, Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship, 2013
New Orleans Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center (NOBPC) Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Fellowship, 2017-2019

Biography

At Tulane:
Since 2016

As associate training director of Tulane’s forensic psychiatry fellowship, Dr. Sonnier's teaching focus is the intersection of mental health or development and the law. She performs evaluations of children, adolescents, and adults that are used in legal proceedings in criminal and civil courts. She also supervise child and adolescent psychiatry fellows, general psychiatry residents, and forensic fellows in many topics including psychotherapy, acute inpatient treatment, psychopharmacology, and forensic evaluations. Dr. Sonnier's current clinical work is in the inpatient acute psychiatry unit at Children’s of New Orleans (CHNOLA).

Publications

Sonnier L, Ford C, McCullum-Smith C. Deception Syndromes: Factitious Disorders and Malingering. In Textbook of Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Third Edition, edited by Levenson J, (2019) American Psychiatric Association, pp. 323-341

Miller S, Sonnier L. Psychological and Social Emergencies. In Clinical Manual of Emergency Pediatrics, 6th edition, edited by Ellen F. Crain, Jeffrey C. Gershel (2018) Cambridge University Press

Sonnier, L. Acute Agitation. In Caring for the Hospitalized Child: A Handbook of Inpatient Pediatrics, 2nd Edition. American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Hospital Medicine, Elk Grove, IL, 2018, pp. 696-715