Sonia S. Hassan, M.D.
Founder and Director

Associate Vice-President, Office of Women’s Health,
Wayne State University Professor,
Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Wayne State University

Sonia S. Hassan, M.D., MBA is Associate Vice-President at Wayne State University (WSU), a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Maternal-Fetal Medicine, and the Founding Director of the Office of Women’s Health at WSU. She leads the SOS Maternity Network in Michigan, a statewide implementation science program to reduce preeclampsia and preterm birth, the leading causes of maternal and infant mortality. The SOS Maternity Network is composed of 14 leading universities, hospital systems, and private practices that care for over 50,000 deliveries annually. Dr. Hassan has authored or co-authored over 400 publications and several patents and was the lead author of a landmark international trial, which demonstrated an intervention that decreases preterm birth by 45%. Dr. Hassan was an NIH-funded researcher for over 17 years and previously served as the Project Site Manager for the $165 million contract for the Perinatology Research Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health, on behalf of WSU. Dr. Hassan is Co-Chair of Michigan’s Mother Infant Health and Equity Collaborative.

Dr. Hassan was named Crain’s 13th Annual Health Care Heroes Awardee and a Michiganian of the Year by the Detroit News. She received the March of Dimes Michigan Prematurity Prevention Hero Award and was the honoree of the Michigan March of Dimes for 2018. In 2019, she was the recipient of the Rogerio A. Lobo Award from the Society for Reproductive Investigation. In 2022, she received the Service Award & Samaritas Ambassador Award for her work as the First Lady of the City of Detroit and Co-Chair of the Detroit Refugee Network in partnership with Samaritas. She is an ambassador of the Smithsonian Women's History Museum’s Michigan Women Making History Committee. Dr. Hassan serves on the Boards of the Michigan Neonatal Biobank, International Women's Forum, Detroit Institute of Arts, and United Way of Southeastern Michigan. She completed her Bachelor of Arts at the University of Michigan and Medical Degree at Wayne State University. Dr. Hassan completed her MBA at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Dr. Hassan is a Fellow of the third class of the Aspen Institute's Health Innovators Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.