Sonny Tat, MD, MPH

Associate Clinical Professor
Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco
San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center
Education
Fellowship, 2014 - Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children's National Health System
2014 - Clinical and Translational Research, The George Washington University
Chief Resident, 2011 - Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco
Residency, 2010 - Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco
M.D., 2007 - , University of Washington
M.P.H., 2005 - Family and Community Health, Harvard School of Public Health
A.B., 2002 - Human Biology, Stanford University
Honors and Awards
  • Elected Membership, Haile T Debas Academy of Medical Educators induction, 2021
  • Excellence in Teaching, UCSF Academy of Medical Educators, 2020
  • Bedside Faculty Teaching Award, UCSF Emergency Medicine, 2019
  • Faculty Teaching Award, UCSF Pediatrics, 2017
  • Excellence in Teaching, UCSF Academy of Medical Educators, 2016
  • Bedside Faculty Teaching Award, UCSF Emergency Medicine, 2016
  • Excellence in Teaching, Children's National Health System, 2014

  1. Daftary RK, Foster AA, Hooft A, Baker C, Crone R, Lu M, Malakzay S, Narula I, Tat S, Kant S. A Qualitative Needs Assessment for Pediatric Care Partnerships in Community Emergency Departments. Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open 2026. PMID: 42733829


  2. Tat S, Shaukat H, Zaveri P, Kou M, Jarvis L. Developing and Integrating Asynchronous Web-Based Cases for Discussing and Learning Clinical Reasoning: Repeated Cross-sectional Study. JMIR medical education 2022. PMID: 36480271


  3. Klig JE, Fang A, Fox SM, Hom J, Strobel A, Tat S, Wall JJ, Bhat R, Weinberg E, Deninghoff KR, Ishimine P, Kou M. 2018 Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference: Advancing Pediatric Emergency Medicine Education Through Research and Scholarship. Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2018. PMID: 30311285


  4. Cohen JS, Hughes N, Tat S, Chamberlain JM, Teach SJ, Boniface K. The Utility of Bedside Lung Ultrasound Findings in Bronchiolitis. Pediatric emergency care 2017. PMID: 27668919


  5. Lumba-Brown A, Tat S, Auerbach MA, Kessler DO, Alletag M, Grover P, Schnadower D, Macias CG, Chang TP. PEMNetwork: Barriers and Enablers to Collaboration and Multimedia Education in the Digital Age. Pediatric emergency care 2016. PMID: 27490735


  6. Chung EY, Tat ST. Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Toxicity in Children: A Clinical Review. Pediatric emergency care 2016. PMID: 27028943


  7. Tat ST, Mejia MJ, Freishtat RJ. Imaging, clearance, and controversies in pediatric cervical spine trauma. Pediatric emergency care 2014. PMID: 25469605


  8. Tat S, Barr D. Healthcare in the New Vietnam: comparing patients' satisfaction with outpatient care in a traditional neighborhood clinic and a new, western-style clinic in Ho Chi Minh City. Social science & medicine (1982) 2005. PMID: 16162387