Sanna currently holds a shared doctoral position at the University of Eastern Finland in sports and exercise medicine and is working in the field of EAS (physical therapy) in her own company. She served HETI as a board member from 2003–2009 as a vice-president and HETI Journal editor and from 2015–2021 as president of HETI Federation during the transfer of the office from the USA to Ireland and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sanna has a main interest in biomechanics combining human and equine movement and pain management. She has completed studies with chronic low back pain patients treating them from a physical therapy perspective and published several articles on it. Sanna has been teaching in Equine College courses of equine facilitated therapies in Finland and has held several international courses on biomechanics.
She has also been involved in several international EU-funded projects where EAS education has been developed.