Kira Bona | Medical Services
Specialties
Programs & Services
Languages
- English
Kira Bona | Education
Graduate School
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Boston, MA
Medical School
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT
Residency
Boston Combined Residency Program (BCRP)
Boston, MA
Fellowship
Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
Boston Children's Hospital / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA
Kira Bona | Certifications
- American Board of Pediatrics (General)
Kira Bona | Professional History
Dr. Kira Bona received her MD from the Yale University School of Medicine and her MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with a focus on clinical effectiveness. She completed her pediatrics residency in the Boston Combined Residency Program (BCRP) at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center and her pediatric hematology/oncology subspecialty fellowship training at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Boston Children’s Hospital. She joined the faculty at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s as a pediatric oncologist in 2012. In addition to her role in the treatment of children with leukemia and lymphoma, Dr. Bona is a physician-scientist with research focused on identifying poverty-associated outcome disparities in childhood cancer and developing interventions to ameliorate these disparities. Dr. Bona has been the recipient of several past awards and honors including a Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, a St. Baldrick’s Fellow Award, a Junior Faculty Career Development Award from the National Palliative Care Research Center, a Charles H. Hood Child Health Research Grant, and an NCI K07 Mentored Career Development Award.