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Robert A. Bonomo, MD

Robert Bonomo, MD

Robert Bonomo, MD

Associate Chief of Staff for Academic Affairs
Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center
Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology, Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Proteomics and Bioinformatics
Case Western Reserve University

Robert A. Bonomo, MD is Distinguished University Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology, Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Proteomics and Bioinformatics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He also serves as Associate Chief of Staff for Academic Affairs at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center.  Formerly, he was Chief of the Medical Service at the Cleveland VA and Vice Chair for Veterans Affairs in the Department of Medicine at University Hospitals of Cleveland for nine years. 

Currently, Dr. Bonomo also serves as the Director of the Cleveland Geriatric Research and Education Clinical Care Center and Director, CWRU-Cleveland VAMC Center for Antimicrobial Resistance and Epidemiology (Case VA CARES) and Coordinating Center for VA SHIELD (VA Science and Health Initiative to Combat Infectious and Emerging Life-Threatening Diseases). In this role, he is responsible for managing the Biorepository for the VA and assisting with a strategic biodefense initiatives. Recently, he was designated Senior Clinical Scientist Investigator of the Veterans Health Administration.

He is an elected fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, American Academy of Microbiology, the Association of American Physicians (AAP), the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) and has been appointed to PCORI as a representative of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. He was Co-Director of the Laboratory Center of the NIH Sponsored Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG).

In 2016 Dr. Bonomo was awarded the Excellence in Clinical Microbiology Award from ESCMID.  The William S. Middleton Award by the Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development Service (BLR&D) of the Veterans Health Administration was given in 2017. 

Dr. Bonomo was awarded the lifetime achievement award from the VA Society of Practitioners of Infectious Diseases (VASPID) in 2018. In 2020, Dr. Bonomo received the Wolcott Award for Excellence in a leadership or management position through exceptional support for direct patient care providers, including support of innovations enhancing the quality of direct patient care delivery by the VA.