Sunnie Y. Wong, MD, PhD

Dr. Sunnie Y. Wong, MD, PhD, currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Surgery, providing clinical care through both the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the Division of Acute Care Surgery. She received her combined medical and doctoral degrees in biomedical sciences from Tulane University School of Medicine.

Prior to joining Indiana University, Dr. Wong completed her General Surgery Residency at Stanford University, followed by a fellowship in burn and surgical critical care at the University of Southern California.

Her clinical practice focuses on burn and acute care surgery, encompassing comprehensive burn management, burn scar reconstruction, trauma, emergency general surgery and surgical critical care.

Dr. Wong’s research centers on the immunologic response to injury, with an emphasis on regulatory T-cell biology, wound healing and critical illness. She has authored more than 20 peer-reviewed publications in leading journals such as Nature, PLoS Genetics, Blood and the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery.

Dr. Wong is a member of the American Burn Association and the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma.