Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Robert O. Bonow, MD

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Medical Education:	Univ. of Pennsylvania 1973
Residency:	Hospital of the Univ. of Pennsylvania
Fellowship:	National Institutes of Health
Board Certification:	Cardiovascular Disease, Internal Medicine
Specialty:	Cardiology
Clinical Interests:	Valvular Heart Disease, Cardiac Assessment, General Cardiology, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, Coronary Artery Disease

= This doctor prefers to see new patients after discussing their care with their current physician. Please have your physician contact the Northwestern Memorial Physician Access Line (PAL) at 1.800.638.3737

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Website: heart.nmh.org

675 N. St. Clair, Galter 19-100
Chicago, IL 60611
P: (312)695-4965
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Biographical Sketch

Dr. Robert O. Bonow is the Goldberg Distinguished Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and chief of the Division of Cardiology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. In 2008 he was named vice chairman of the Department of Medicine and director of the Center for Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. He received his MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dr. Bonow is recognized for his research and teaching in a variety of cardiac diseases, including coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, and heart failure. He has authored or co-authored more than 390 published papers and 88 book chapters. He serves on the editorial boards of 11 medical journals, and is one of the four principal editors of Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine

Dr. Bonow is past-President of the American Heart Association (2002-2003) and a Master of the American College of Cardiology (2008). He chaired the ACC/AHA Guidelines for Management of Patients with Valvular Heart Disease and the ACC/AHA Task Force on Performance Measures. He is a past member of the Board of Trustees of the American College of Cardiology, the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association, the Subspecialty Board on Cardiovascular Disease of the American Board of Internal Medicine, the Board of Extramural Advisors of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, and the Clinical Research Roundtable of the Institute of Medicine. He currently serves on healthcare quality committees of the National Quality Forum, the National Committee for Quality Assurance, and the Physicians' Consortium for Performance Improvement.

Among his honors are the NIH Director's Award, the U.S. Public Health Service Commendation Medal and Outstanding Service Medal, and elected membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Fellowship Award and Distinguished Service Award of the American College of Cardiology; the Distinguished Leadership Award, Distinguished Achievement Award, Gold Heart Award, and James B. Herrick Award of the American Heart Association; and the John Phillips Memorial Award of the American College of Physicians.

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