Loretta Sonnier, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Education & Affiliations
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).
Contributions
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
