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Bonney Appointed to 5-Year Term on NICHD Board of Scientific Counselors

January 12, 2018 by Jennifer Nachbur

Elizabeth Bonney, M.D., M.P.H., professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the UVM Larner College of Medicine, was appointed to a five-year term on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Division of Intramural Research.

Elizabeth Bonney, M.D., M.P.H.

Elizabeth Bonney, M.D., M.P.H., professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the UVM Larner College of Medicine, was appointed to a five-year term on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Division of Intramural Research. 

The NICHD Division of Intramural Research is organized around four thematic areas associated with human development, including the biology of cell fate; biology of growth and development; biology of reproduction; and biology of cognition and behavior.

Bonney, who also serves as director of research for her department and specializes in immune system function during pregnancy, joined the UVM faculty in 2002. She received a medical degree from Stanford University Medical School, completed a residency in obstetrics/gynecology at Harvard, a fellowship in bacteriology and immunology at the National Institutes of Health, and earned an M.P.H. degree from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Bonney is a Fellow of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She will serve in her Board of Scientific Counselors role through June 2022.