Sonia Ananthakrishnan, MD

Biography

Dr. Ananthakrishnan has been active in medical student and resident education at Boston University since 2008. She also practices in clinical endocrinology and has a focus in Neuroendocrinology.

Dr. Ananthakrishnan has served as an Evans Student Educator since 2009. She currently serves as the Director of Student Education in the Department of Medicine and is the clerkship director to 3rd year students in the Medicine clerkship. Her area of interest and focus is in feedback and assessment. She is an active national member of Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine. Dr. Ananthakrishnan has served as the faculty mentor for the Internal Medicine Interest Group at BUSM since 2012, the student-led group that plans activities designed to educate the student body on the field of Internal Medicine and its various subspecialties. She is the lead Field Specific Advisor in Internal Medicine for students applying to IM as 4th years.

As part creating a healthy work environment for both trainees and co-faculty, her work in the Mid-Career Faculty Leadership Program led to an intersection between innovative curriculum development and supporting the Boston University Medical Campus goal of developing a bystander training program for addressing micro-aggressions. In May 2020, she was part of a team that created the 'LIFT' training tool, that is presently the model used in bystander training here at Boston Medical Center, designed to empower the community to address micro-aggressions in the work setting.

Dr. Ananthakrishnan’s outpatient practice is in the Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition at Boston Medical Center. Her focus is in neuroendocrinology, and she works as the Endocrine director of a multidisciplinary Neuroendocrine group. She is a Spanish-speaking provider.

Dr. Ananthakrishnan received her BA in Latin American Studies from Northwestern University and her MD from Northwestern University School of Medicine. She completed her Categorical Internal Medicine residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia followed by a chief residency year at Lankenau Hospital in Wynnewood, PA. She completed her fellowship in Endocrinology at Boston Medical Center.