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Dr. Alfred O. Bonati achievements

ADVANCES AND EXPERTISE

 

  • More than 25 years experience in arthroscopic and laser technology procedures

  • Completed more than 35,000 arthroscopic laser spine procedures

  • Documented outcome of 93% success ratio with patients during the last 10 years

  • Obtained FDA approval of the Holmium YAG laser for arthroscopic laser spine surgery

  • Faculty and international speaker who instructs on and presents advancements in the use of laser and arthroscopic procedures of the spine

 

BOARD CERTIFICATIONS

 

  • American Academy of Neurological and Orthopedic Surgeons

 

CERTIFICATION

 

  • Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates; Passed 1970

 

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

 

  • 1963-1969 Medical School:  University of Seville, Seville, Spain; M.D.

 

INTERNSHIPS

  • 11/1970- 11/1971

       Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, MD

  • 12/1971- 06/1972

       Franklin Square Hospital, Baltimore, MD, General Surgery

  • 07/1972- 06/1973

       Cook County General Hospital Chicago, IL

  • 07/1972-06/1973

       Cook County General Hospital, Chicago, IL, General Surgery

  • 07/1973- 06/1974                 

  • University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL-  Neurosurgery   supernumerary; rotation; neurosurgery- pediatric and adult at both University Hospital and Veterans Hospital under the direction of Dr. Gailbraith

  • 07/1974-06/1975

        Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC

  • 07/1975-06/1976

        Georgetown University, Washington, DC, General Surgery

 

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

 

07/1977-08/1981                 

Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, 4-year orthopedic residency which included; General adult orthopedics; crippled children’s clinic; extensive training in clinical and surgical scoliosis management; hand surgery and micro-vascular and re-implementation surgery. 

Moses Cone Hospital: Arthroscopy and intra-articular surgery; general orthopedic and trauma.  Forsyth Memorial Hospital/Whitaker Care Center: rehabilitation training. 

Wake Forest University: Clinics in amputee and myelodysplasia.

 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

 

  • International College of Surgeons in Orthopedic Surgery

  • The American Academy of Neurological and Orthopedic Surgeons

  • Southern Orthopedic Association

  • International Intradiscal Therapy Society

  • Bowman Gray Alumni Association

  • Society of Laparendoscopic Surgeons

  • Association of American Physicians and Surgeons

  • Southern Medical Association

  • American Medical Association

  • North American Spine Society

  • Florida Medical Association

  • Pasco County Medical Society

  • Arthroscopy Association of North America

 

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