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Meet Our Speakers

Robert Bell Director of Community Support Georgia Department of Behavioral Health & Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD) Contact: 404.561.4483 Email: Robert.bell@dbhdd.ga.gov

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 Doctorate 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 ViceǦChairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Emory and Director of Schizophrenia Research. He has published numerous peerǦreviewed 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, Immediate PastǦPresident of the Georgia Psychiatric Physician Association, and Distinguished Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists. 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 UCLA School of Law. Joseph Bona, MD, MBA Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer DeKalb Community Service Board Contact: 404.294.383͠ Email: josephb@dekcsb.org

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