Dr. Vanna Soonthon-Brant is board certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology.  She joined Children’s Hospital Central California from San Diego, where she was a staff anesthesiologist at Children’s Hospital San Diego and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology and a member of the Cardiac and Pediatric Anesthesia Teams at UCSD Medical Center.  She has provided her expertise as a volunteer anesthesiologist on medical missions to Mexico and South America. She has also assisted the San Diego Zoo with specialty anesthesia care.

She maintains active membership in professional societies including the International Anesthesia Research Society, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, and the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia. Her work has been published in professional journals including The American Surgeon and Anesthesia and Analgesia.

A graduate from the University of Southern California, School of Medicine in Los Angeles, where she was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Medical Society, Dr. Soonthon-Brant completed her internal medicine internship at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Long Beach, California.  She completed her anesthesiology residency at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where she served as Chief Resident. Dr. Soonthon-Brant is fellowship trained in pediatric anesthesia by Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. She also completed a junior faculty mentoring fellowship in faculty development at the National Center of Leadership in Academic Medicine, UCSD.

Dr. Soonthon-Brant spends her free time with her husband Adam, a neurosurgeon in Fresno, and their two daughters. She also speaks fluent Thai.

Publications

Soonthon-Brant V, Benumof JL. “Unexpected small tracheobronchial tree size and separation of the lungs.” J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2002; 16(2):260-1; author reply 261-2.
PMID: 11957182

Soonthon-Brant V, Patel PM, Drummond JC, Cole DJ, Kelly PJ, Watson M. “Fentanyl does not increase brain injury after focal cerebral ischemia in rats.” Anesth Analg. 1999; 88(1):49-55.
PMID: 9895065