Monika Sadlonova, MD, is a research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital (Cardiac Psychiatry Research Program) and Harvard Medical School. She graduated from the fellowship program in psychosomatic consultation–liaison service at the University of Göttingen Medical Centre in Germany in 2020, where she served as a staff physician for the psychosomatic consultation–liaison service at the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (Prof. I. Kutschka) and as a co-investigator in a multicenter TEACH clinical trial (PI - Prof. C. Herrmann-Lingen, ´Blended collaborative care in distressed patients with chronic coronary heart disease´). Her clinical and research interests fall within the areas of psychosomatic consultation–liaison service, with special interests in psychiatric symptoms, psychological interventions, and delirium prevention arising in the context of cardiac surgery and cardiology.