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Biography
Stephen Sonnenberg, M.D. (born in 1940 in Brooklyn, New York) is Professor of Medical Education at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin, where he leads the University's undergraduate humanities-focused healthcare education initiative.

Educated at Princeton University, Sonnenberg went on to complete his medical degree at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He interned in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, did his Psychiatry Residency at Einstein, and trained as a researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health. He then trained in Psychoanalysis at the Baltimore-DC Institute for Psychoanalysis. Sonnenberg has practiced medicine since 1965, and has been educating undergraduate students for ten years in medical humanities and medical ethics. His work in academia focuses on education, architecture, war, and violence.

In addition to his appointment at UT Austin's Dell Medical School, Sonnenberg serves as Fellow of the Trice Professorship in the Plan II Honors Program, Adjunct Professor at the School of Architecture, and Core Faculty of the Human Dimensions of Organizations Program. He holds committee assignments for the UT-Austin Rhodes, Marshall, and Truman Scholarship Selection Committees, and chaired the Hamilton Book Awards Selection Committee in 2017.

Current Work
In 2017, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Sonnenberg a grant to create an undergraduate medical humanities program at UT-Austin, “Patients, Practitioners, and Cultures of Care (PPCC).” The grant provides for the pilot program to expand into a Bridging Disciplines Program (BDP) whereby students may earn a certificate demonstrating their competence in humanities in healthcare. The program stems from the belief that immersion in the humanities is imperative to healthcare professionals from the earliest stages of their education.