ABAI Honors Vincent Bonagura
for MOC Reciprocity Milestone
Former ABAI Director and ABP Director Representative, Vincent R. Bonagura, MD, was honored for his service to the American Board of Allergy and Immunology (ABAI) on October 21, 2011 in Nashville, TN.
At their October 2011 meeting in Nashville, TN, the Board of Directors of the American Board of Allergy and Immunology (ABAI) honored Vincent R. Bonagura, MD, for his work in establishing Maintenance of Certification (MOC) reciprocity between ABAI and the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP). Bonagura, who served as an ABAI Director from 2002 to 2007 and ABAI Representative to ABP from 2005-2010, was presented with an award for the integral role he played in shaping the mutual relationship between the boards. As a result of his work, diplomates of ABAI and ABP are now able to participate in and complete interchangeable aspects of their respective MOC programs more efficiently without duplicating efforts.
Dr. Bonagura was also commended for his years of dedicated service as an ABAI Director where he served as: Chair of the Conjoint Standards and Nominating Committees, and as Recertification Examination Co-Chair. He was ABAI Representative to the Residency Review Committee, and a member of the CLI Joint Testing Committee and ABAI Bylaws Task Force. The ABAI Directors thanked him for his contributions and acumen as a test question writer and reviewer for ABAI’s Secure Exams.
Dr. Bonagura is currently Associate Chair, Department of Pediatrics for Academic Affairs, Chief, Division of Allergy/Immunology, Jack Hausman Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Molecular Medicine, Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, Great Neck, NY. He serves as Professor in the Elmezzi Graduate School of Molecular Medicine and as an Investigator at Feinstein Institute for Medical Research.
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The ABAI and ABP are two of 24 medical specialty boards (Member Boards) that make up the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS). ABAI and ABP are conjoint boards.
