Dr. Bono is also a member of the consulting staff in the department of surgery at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. He is the chair of the Discography Review and Recommendation Committee and a member of the Contemporary Concepts Committee of the North American Spine Society.
Dr. Bono has won a wide-array of awards during his career, and most recently won the AAOS Achievement Award in 2014 for contributions to research, advocacy and education. He has been actively involved in contributing to clinical innovations and has worked with a development team at Stryker Spine for the development of an expandable cervical spine corpectomy cage. He is a deputy editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and an editorial board member of Journal of Spinal Disorders & Techniques.
“The focus of my practice has been truly implementing the tools available from evidence-based medicine,” says Dr. Bono. “As I often explain to my current residents and fellows, when I started practice 12 years ago, I had no other spine colleagues at my institution. For better or worse, PubMed was my de facto partner, which I would consult on a daily basis. This reliance on data has been a pervasive theme in my academic, organizational and clinical career. On the technical side, I have strived to make spine surgery as routine and systematic as possible in order to produce high-quality, predictable outcomes. It is the thoughtful blending and balance of evidence-based medicine’s lessons and the reproducibility of surgical results that holds the greatest promise for directing the future of spinal surgery.”
Dr. Bono earned his medical degree SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York City and completed his orthopedic surgery residency at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, previously known as New Jersey Medical School/University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Newark. He has completed a spine surgery fellowship at University of California, San Diego Medical Center.
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