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Robert Bona, MD

Professor of Medicine (Hematology)
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Professor of Medicine, Hematology

Clinical Director, Classical Hematology Program

Medical Director, Hemophilia Treatment Center

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Professor of Medicine (Hematology)

Professor of Medicine, Hematology; Clinical Director, Classical Hematology Program; Medical Director, Hemophilia Treatment Center

Biography

Dr. Robert Bona, is the director of the classical (benign) hematology program and medical director of the Hemophilia Treatment Center at Yale. Originally from New York, he and his wife, Georg'Ann, are current residents of New Haven and long time residents of Connecticut where they have raised their three children. Prior to coming to Yale, he was a founding faculty member of the Frank H. Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University. Prior to that he was Professor of Medicine at UConn School of Medicine, having had early training there and at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford. At UConn School of Medicine,  he served as the hematology oncology fellowship program director, chief of the division of hematology oncology and Hemophilia Treatment Center director. He has had a strong interest, throughout his career, in medical education and clinical hemostasis and thrombosis. He is a graduate of SUNY Upstate Medical College in Syracuse New York and is board certified in internal medicine, hematology and medical oncology. 

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Education & Training

Non Degree Program
University of MA, Instructional Design-Certificate (2013)
Fellow Hematology-Oncology
University of Connecticut (1986)
Intern-Resident
Brown University-Rhode Island Hospital (1983)
MD
SUNY Upstate Medical Center (1980)

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2024

2023

2021

2020

Clinical Care

Overview

Robert Bona, MD, is a Yale Cancer Center hematologist. He cares for individuals with blood disorders, including those with excessive bleeding or clotting, those with low red blood cell (anemia), low platelet, or white cell counts, and those with disorders of iron metabolism. He is the director of the Classical Hematology Program at Smilow Cancer Hospital (which treats non-cancer-related blood disorders) and medical director of the Yale Hemophilia Treatment Center.

Dr. Bona says he has been interested in blood disorders since medical school, where he studied with some of the top experts in the field. “I’ve always been interested in looking at blood cells under the microscope and studying blood coagulation and clotting,” he says.

As a Yale Medicine clinician, he often works with teams that include advanced practitioners, nurses, and other specialized physicians from medicine, laboratory medicine, and transfusion medicine, as well as medical providers from related areas such as surgery and radiology.

For those individuals asking for advice or care, he suggests they come to their visit with a sense of what they want to talk about. “Come with an agenda. It might be to discuss your diagnosis, treatment for your disease, or other diagnostic possibilities if the diagnosis has not yet been made,” he says. If you are coming from a medical center with a different medical record system, making your complete medical record available is important to have an optimal visit. It also helps, if you wish, to bring a family member or friend to talk to us about complex medical issues.”

In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Bona is a professor of medicine (hematology) at Yale School of Medicine. He has strong interests in medical education and research interests in new treatments for people with bleeding or clotting disorders. “The education and training of our next generation of physicians and medical educators is very important to me,” he says.

Prior to coming to Yale, Dr. Bona was a founding faculty member of the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University. Prior to that, he worked in the Hematology-Oncology division at the University of Connecticut.

Clinical Specialties

Hematology

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Board Certifications

  • Hematology (Internal Medicine)

    Certification Organization
    AB of Internal Medicine
    Latest Certification Date
    2015
    Original Certification Date
    1986
  • Medical Oncology

    Certification Organization
    AB of Internal Medicine
    Original Certification Date
    1985
  • Internal Medicine

    Certification Organization
    AB of Internal Medicine
    Original Certification Date
    1983

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