Joanna M. Bonsall,
MD, PhD

Doctor's Bio

Joanna Bonsall, MD, PhD, SFHM, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Emory University and Chief of Hospital Medicine at Grady Memorial Hospital. She completed her undergraduate training at Emory University and her medical and graduate training at Emory University School of Medicine. She was hired as a hospitalist at Emory University Hospital Midtown in 2009, before transferring to Grady Memorial Hospital in 2017 to establish a hospital medicine group. She was awarded the first Emory University School of Medicine Distinguished Service Award for her work at Grady in 2018.
Dr. Bonsall is strongly interested in medical education at all levels, from medical students to faculty. She was the Hospital Medicine Associate Division Director for Faculty Development from 2014 – 2019 and is the Clinical Co-director of the MD/PhD program. She received several teaching awards, including the Dean’s Teaching Award in 2014. In the Society of Hospital Medicine, she was the chair of the Academic Committee from 2016 – 2019 and co-Directed the 2015, 2016 and 2017 Academic Summits. She also co-directed the Southern Hospital Medicine Conference from 2014 – 2018. Clinically, she is interested in the diagnosis and treatment of pneumonia, and lectures nationally on this topic.