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Stuart Kaplan, MD, FAAP
Executive Director of the North Carolina Child and Adolescent Program
Veritas Collaborative
Contact: 919.908.9752
Email:
Dr. Joseph Bona is presently the Chief Executive Officer
and Chief Medical Officer of the DeKalb Community
Service Board. He is also Adjunct Clinical Professor of
Psychiatry at the Emory School of Medicine and the
Medical College of Georgia.
Dr. Bona is originally from Buffalo, NY and earned a
Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology and English at Canisius
College in Buffalo, and a Medical Doctor degree at the
State University of New York at Buffalo. He completed
psychiatry residency training and chief residency at the
Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC; and
earned an MBA at the University of South Florida in
Tampa.
Prior to his present role, Dr. Bona served as Vice-Chairman of the Department of
Psychiatry at Emory and Director of Schizophrenia Research at Emory. He has published
numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and maintains a research interest in
psychotic disorders, psychopharmacology, early episode schizophrenia, primary care
integration and service delivery structure and policy.
Dr. Bona is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a member of
the American College of Psychiatrists, and President of the Georgia Psychiatric Physician
Association. He was awarded the Georgia Psychiatrist of the year for 2016.
Dr. Bona and his wife Laura live in Sandy Springs, Georgia and have a daughter who
attends the University of Miami, School of Law.
Joseph Bona, MD, MBA
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer
DeKalb Community Service Board
Contact: 404.294.3836
Email: