UICOMP SURGERY FACULTY
JULIUS P. BONELLO, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery
Chief, Section of Colorectal Surgery
Dr. Julius P. Bonello is originally from Minnesota and received his undergraduate degree in 1970 from the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He conducted postgraduate studies and received his doctorate of medicine at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. His training continued at the University of Minnesota Hospitals, where he completed a Surgical Internship and began a General Surgery Residency. He finished his residency at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, Vermont in 1979. He completed a Fellowship in Colon and Rectal Surgery at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1980.
Dr. Bonello was on the surgical faculty at the Carle Clinic, Urbana-Champaign from 1980 to 1996, serving as the Acting Head of the Department of Surgery from 1982 to 1986 and Head of the Department of Surgery from 1986 to 1995, He was Chair of the Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery and Program Director for the Colon and Rectal Surgery Fellowship from 1988 to 1992. Dr. Bonello has more than 26 years of experience in Colon and Rectal Surgery.
Dr. Bonello joined our faculty in 1996. He is Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery and Director of the G.I. Conference for the General Surgery Residency. He was the 1998 recipient of the resident-elected UICOMP Department of Surgery ‘Faculty Teaching Award’.
He is a member of numerous surgical societies and is on staff at all three Peoria hospitals.
Dr. Bonello lives in Peoria with his wife and their eight children.
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