Bonita Ann Anderson

Bonita has more than 40 years’ clinical experience in echocardiography and enjoyed a 15-year tenure as an academic at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) where she coordinated the Graduate Diploma in Cardiac Ultrasound from 2005 to 2013. She is also the author of two Echocardiography textbooks which are used in teaching programs within Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Europe and has edited and contributed to several other echocardiography textbooks. Bonita has been actively involved in many professional societies and councils throughout her career. She served on the Board of Directors for the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) from 2017-2019 as the inaugural International Representative. She has also served in positions on the ASE Membership Committee, the Cardiovascular Imaging Case Reports (CASE) Editorial Board, the Council of the Australasian Sonographers Accreditation Registry (ASAR), Cardiac Sonographers Working Group for the Australasian Sonographers Association (ASA), Board of Examiners for the Diploma in Medical Ultrasound (ASUM) and the Imaging Council for the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ). In 2009, Bonita was awarded a Fellowship of the American Society of Echocardiography (FASE) and a Fellowship of the Australasian Sonographers Association (FASA) in 2018. Bonita received the ASA Pru Pratten Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010 and has also received two prestigious awards from the ASE: the ASE Meritorious Service Award (2020) and the ASE Sonographer Lifetime Achievement Award (2024).