George E. Bonney, a statistical geneticist and biostatistician who was professor of community health and family medicine at Howard University’s medical school, died June 29 at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center in Olney. He was 65.
The cause was a heart attack, said his daughter, Aba Kwawu.
Dr. Bonney, a native of Ghana, was associate professor of biometry and genetics at Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans before joining Howard’s National Human Genome Center in 1987.
He left in 1991 to become chairman of the department of biostatistics at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. He returned to Howard in 1998 and remained on the faculty until his death.
George Ebow Bonney was born in Mumford, Ghana, and graduated in 1972 from the University of Ghana, where he also received a master’s degree in genetics in 1976. He received a doctorate in biostatistics and genetics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981. Read Full
