Dr. Bonow is the Goldberg Distinguished Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Cardiology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and Co-Director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute. Before joining Northwestern in 1992, Dr. Bonow was Deputy Chief of the Cardiology Branch at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

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 350 published papers and serves on the editorial boards of 11 medical journals, including the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. He is also editor along with Drs. Braunwald, Zipes, and Libby of Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine.

Dr. Bonow served as president of the American Heart Association from 2002 to 2003. He currently serves on the Board of Extramural Advisors of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. 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, and the Clinical Research Roundtable of the Institute of Medicine.

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