Ona Bloom, PhD completed her doctoral studies in neuroscience in the lab of the late Dr. Paul Greengard at The Rockefeller University and performed her postdoctoral studies in cell biology and immunology in the lab of Dr. Ira Mellman at the Yale University School of Medicine. She is a Professor at The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, the research entity of Northwell Health, where she directs the Laboratory of Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Research. She is also a member of the Spinal Cord Injury Damage Center at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center (Bronx, NY). Dr. Bloom’s translational research program studies how SCI impacts the immune system and consequently, how changes in the immune system impact survival, neurological recovery, overall health and quality of life after SCI. 

Dr. Bloom’s awards and honors include a Grass Faculty Fellowship at the Marine Biological Laboratory (2012-2013), first place poster award at the American Spinal Injury Association (2014), Outstanding Research in the Field of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Award from the New York Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (2014), the Eugene and Millicent Bell Fellowship Fund in Tissue Engineering Awardee from the Marine Biological Laboratory (2014), among others. Dr. Bloom was an elected member of the Program Committee of the Society for Neuroscience (2017-2020), is the Director of the International Symposium for Neural Regeneration, and a member of the Research Committee of American Spinal Injury Association. She has served as a peer reviewer for the Veterans Administration Rehabilitation Research and Development Panels, the Paralyzed Veterans of America Foundation, NIH, NSF, and is a member of the SCIRTS study section of the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation. In 2020, Dr. Bloom was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society.