Stephanie Bonne is an Associate Professor of surgery in the division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, NJ and practices trauma and critical care surgery at University Hospital where she serves as the Trauma Medical Director.  She is also the medical director of the center’s Hospital Based Violence Intervention Program, and the surveillance core director of the New Jersey Center for Gun Violence Research at Rutgers University. 

Dr. Bonne serves on multiple violence working groups in her role as a state vice chair for the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. She serves as the co-chair of the American Medical Women’s Association Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, co-chair of the APHA’s Public Health Partnership for the Prevention of Firearm Violence and is on the research advisory board of the American Foundation for Firearm Reduction in Medicine (AFFIRM).  Dr. Bonne is currently a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, has been awarded the Claude Organ Traveling Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons, is a graduate of the Future Leaders in Trauma Program and has been awarded the Eastern Association for the Surgery Templeton Injury Prevention Scholarship and multicenter research scholarship.

Dr. Bonne holds a BA in psychology and biochemistry from Kalamazoo College, an MD from Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, completed general surgery residency at the University of Illinois Metropolitan Group and fellowships in surgical critical care and trauma at Washington University in St. Louis.  She is board certified in general surgery and surgical critical care and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons the American Medical Women’s Association.