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Distinguished Achievement in a Profession
Ask Bonnie Smith Slovis, M.D., M.Ed., MSHS, FCCP what she considers her life’s greatest accomplishment and her honest answer will be having raised two sons to adulthood. Ask her sons the same question and they are likely to tell the story of how at age forty, after having successfully raised her family, worked as a substitute teacher, a computer programmer, a financial consultant, and a management consultant, and after earning a master’s degree in counseling psychology and a master of science degree in health systems analysis, Bonnie took the first step to fulfilling her life-long ambition of becoming a physician. In 1986, twenty years after graduating from Wesleyan with an AB in mathematics, Bonnie began her freshman year at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.
A member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and recipient of a Lange Book Award, Bonnie graduated cum laude from Emory in 1990 and was honored with a Janet M. Glasgow Memorial Achievement Citation from the American Medical Women’s Association. For two years she was a resident of internal medicine at University of Rochester School of Medicine, Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York, and then moved to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1996 she completed her postdoctoral fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Vanderbilt.
These days Bonnie is up and out the door at 5:30 most mornings for a run with husband Corey Slovis, M.D., who is Chair of the Department and Professor of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt. Because of their busy schedules, this is a cherished time they share. Bonnie serves as consultant at the hospital and also sees outpatients in the faculty practice. She oversees the health of more than two hundred cystic fibrosis patients. At Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Bonnie is the Associate Director for Clinical Affairs of the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care, Director of the Pulmonary Patient Care Center, Director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Center, Director of Outpatient Pulmonary Medicine, and Associate Professor of Medicine. She is also an attending physician at the multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Clinic and Pulmonary Inpatient and Consult Service at Vanderbilt. “I am living my dream,” she said. “This is what I’ve wanted to do all my life.”
Bonnie has been the invited lecturer at dozens of seminars, presentations, and symposia. She has authored and/or co-authored more than fifty publications, chapters and abstracts. An effective grant writer, Bonnie has received more than half a million dollars in grant awards to aid in her research programs for the study of patients with conditions like cystic fibrosis, diabetes, and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. She is board certified in critical care medicine, pulmonology and internal medicine. She is a member of American College of Physicians, American Thoracic Society, and is a Fellow of American College of Chest Physicians.
In the little spare time she has, Bonnie likes to read. Her taste is eclectic, including fiction, feminist literature, psychology, and science. Bonnie has recently taken up yoga where she seeks to find a balance between body and soul.
A life-long learner, Bonnie is a model of professional fortitude and accomplishment. For excelling in the field of medicine; for the tireless hours devoted to research; for her commitment to each of her patients individually; and for her dedication to improving the health of others, The Wesleyan College Alumnae Association presents the Alumnae Award for Distinguished Achievement in a Profession to Bonnie Smith Slovis, Class of 1966. |
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