The medical school will welcome Elizabeth Bonney, MD, MPH, in January as the featured speaker for Seminars in Investigative Medicine.
Dr. Bonney’s presentation is scheduled for noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, January 22, 2025, in TBL 2 at the W.E. Upjohn M.D. Campus in downtown Kalamazoo. A pizza lunch from Erbelli’s will be provided for attendees.
The event is free and MEDU credit is available. If you plan to attend, please register here. Individuals who RSVP will be admitted before those without a reservation.
Dr. Bonney is a professor and director of the Research Division in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. Dr. Bonney received her MD degree from Stanford University Medical School and completed her residency training at Harvard University. Later, she completed a bacteriology and immunology fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and received her MPH degree from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Dr. Bonney is the recipient of several NIH grants. In her lab at the University of Vermont, Dr. Bonney and her team use developing mouse models to investigate pregnancy’s influence on T-cell regulation. She is also interested in the role of infection and innate immunity in preterm birth.
Seminars in Investigative Medicine is a research seminar series at WMed aimed at bringing together the community of investigators both within – and outside — the medical school.