About me
Elizabeth A. Bonney MD, MPH is currently a Board-Certified Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, and Head of the Division of Reproductive Sciences Research, Senior Member of the Vermont Center for Immunology and Infectious Disease, President of the Preterm Birth International collaborative, past Chair of the Board of Scientific Councilors of the National Institute of Child Health and human Development and past Chair of the Career Development and Diversity Committee of the Society for Reproductive Investigation. She is also an attending physician in her department’s Generalist Division and the University of Vermont Medical Center for Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery. She is the recipient of several awards for leadership, mentorship, gender equity and reproductive science.
Her NIH-funded laboratory uses mouse models to study the homeostasis of maternal T cells in response to fetal and environmental antigens. Her group further investigates the role played by this process in the regulation of maternal cardiovascular biology, responses to viral infection, and the metabolic and other factors leading to preterm birth. She feels that this work may also reveal clues about how the maternal immune system “educates” that of the developing fetus. In her work she has published over 125 manuscripts, abstracts, book chapters and scientific commentaries. She strongly supports representation in science and medicine and the building of research capacity through teaching, mentorship and sponsorship.