Professor of Cardiology
Northwester University Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwester University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Robert O. Bonow, MD, MS is the Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Cardiology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He received his MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He served as Senior Investigator in the Cardiology Branch of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the NIH from 1980 to 1992, and was Chief of the Division of Cardiology at Northwestern University from 1992 to 2011. He has authored or co-authored over 630 papers in the medical literature and 120 book chapters. He is Editor-in-Chief of JAMA Cardiology and is one of the editors of Braunwald’s Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine.
Dr. Bonow is a past president of the American Heart Association, a Master of the American College of Cardiology and a Master of the American College of Physicians. He has served on the Board of Scientific Counselors and Board of Extramural Advisors of the NHLBI, the Board of Trustees of the American College of Cardiology, the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association, and the Subspecialty Board on Cardiovascular Disease of the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Among his honors are the NIH Director’s Award and the U.S. Public Health Service Commendation Medal and Outstanding Service Medal. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Leadership Award, Distinguished Achievement Award, Gold Heart Award, and James B. Herrick Award of the American Heart Association; the Distinguished Fellowship Award, Distinguished Service Award, and Distinguished Scientist Award of the American College of Cardiology; the Denolin Award of the European Society of Cardiology; and the John Phillips Memorial Award of the American College of Physicians. An endowed chair was established in his name at Northwestern University in 2012.
Friday, October 28, 2022
2:33 PM – 2:48 PM EDT