Duke Management Academy Scholars

Sonya Sutton

Title: Research Communications & Engagement Project Manager
Department: Duke Clinical Research Institute
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Class Year: 2024

Bio:
An innovative communicator and manager, Sonya Sutton has more than 20 years of experience in project leadership, content development and strategy, and team management across a wide range of health care topics. She has extensive experience in managing federally funded research networks and has led communications for the Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Clinical Trials Data Coordinating Center, the HEAL Pain Expanded Research Network (ERN), the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory, and NC Integrated Care for Kids (NC InCK). She joined the Duke Clinical Research Institute in 2018 and in her role as Research Communications Project Manager, she coordinates the work of team members in content development, website creation, graphic design, social media, and develops the overall communications strategy for research projects and clinical trials. Sonya holds a BSPH in Health Policy and Management and a MA in Journalism and Mass Communication with a focus on Medical Journalism from UNC-Chapel Hill. In her free time, she loves to travel with her husband and two teenage daughters.