Bonnie has a PhD, MSN, and BSN in nursing from the Catholic University of America, and a MBA from American University in Washington, DC. Bonnie was the deputy director at the War-Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC) at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, DC. It was at the WRIISC that Bonnie obtained funding to start the first WRIISC Complimentary and Alternative Medicine Clinic where inpatient and outpatient acupuncture was offered to Veterans. She was involved in developing a WRIISC acupuncture research protocol examining the effect of auricular acupuncture on PTSD related insomnia. More recently, Bonnie has been teaching research and statistics, health care finance, health care policy, and theory in the doctor of nursing practice program at East Carolina University. MAOM/DACM