Special interests: Bone and soft tissue pathology, head and neck pathology, and breast pathology
A/Professor Fiona Bonar graduated with honours from the National University of Ireland in 1977. Having first trained in the clinical arena, she is also a member of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and holds diplomas in both paediatrics and obstetrics. She began her pathology training in Ireland at Trinity College, Dublin, and subsequently studied in the USA, where she was Resident and Chief Resident in Anatomical Pathology at New York Hospital’s Cornell Medical Centre. A/Professor Bonar completed a Fellowship in Musculoskeletal Pathology at the Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, and migrated to Australia in 1990. She joined Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology in 1993. A/Professor Bonar has a particular interest and expertise in the histopathology of bones and joints, soft tissues, head and neck, and breast. She has contributed to the literature on a variety of topics, most related to musculoskeletal disease. She is a member of several editorial boards of international specialty journals, participates in a number of national and international clinicopathological groups, and is an Honorary Consultant in Orthopaedic Pathology at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, where she has been the Curator of the New South Wales Bone Tumour Registry. A/Professor Bonar has been honoured by admission to The International Skeletal Society, in which she is an active member and in which she has been the recipient of the Corinne Farrell Award. She also holds the position of Adjunct Professor of Pathology at the School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame.