Research Fellow
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Monika Sadlonova, MD, is research fellow at the Cardiac Psychiatry Research Program and Harvard Medical School. She graduated from the fellowship program in psychosomatic consultation-liaison service at the University of Göttingen Medical Centre in Germany in 2020, where she served as staff physician in psychosomatic consultation-liaison service at the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (Prof. I. Kutschka) and co-investigator in multicenter TEACH clinical trial (PI - Prof. C. Herrmann-Lingen, ´Blended collaborative care in distressed patients with chronic coronary heart disease´). She obtained training in psychodynamic psychotherapy at Lou-Andreas-Salomé Institute in Göttingen, Germany. She is currently in charge of medical data collection and participant screening for a study on a collaborative care intervention for patients with acute coronary syndrome and heart failure with psychiatric comorbidities, as well as for positive psychology interventions for individuals at risk for cardiovascular disease. Her clinical and research interests fall within the areas of psychosomatic medicine / consultation-liaison psychiatry, with special interests in psychiatric symptoms, psychological interventions, and delirium prevention arising in the context of cardiac surgery and cardiology.
