Jonathan P. Bona

Assistant Professor

UAMS

Also affiliated: University of Arkansas Medical Center (2022–2023); University at Buffalo, State University of New York (2009–2016)

11 h-index 67 pubs 420 cited

Research Areas

Biomedical Subjects

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Jonathan P. Bona's research centers on the application of ontologies and artificial intelligence to enhance biomedical data integration and analysis, with a particular focus on precision medicine and health imaging. He has investigated methods for improving the representation of protein entities using ontologies, as demonstrated in his work on the Protein Ontology (PRO). His research also addresses the practical challenges of preparing clinical and imaging data for AI-driven health imaging projects, including the de-identification process and DICOM re-encoding.

Bona's work on the Platform for Imaging in Precision Medicine (PRISM) highlights his efforts in semantically integrating multi-modal data, including neuroimaging results, within systems like the Arkansas Imaging Enterprise System (ARIES). He has also explored the documentation of data de-identification processes for AI in health imaging and the analysis of caregiver burden expressed in social media. His research extends to understanding socioeconomic determinants of remote patient monitoring implementation in both rural and urban hospital settings.

He has published 68 papers with an h-index of 11 and has received funding for his work, including a $212,716 award from the NIH/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities for the Arkansas Center for Health Disparities T32 Pre-doctoral Research Training Program, where he serves as Co-PI. Bona collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Joseph Utecht, Fred Prior, Aaron S. Kemp, and Mathias Brochhausen.

Metrics

h-index: 11
Publications: 67
Citations: 420

Positions

Associate Professor 2026–present

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Biomedical Informatics ORCID
Assistant Professor 2018–present

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Biomedical Informatics Institutional directory

Selected Publications

From Gestational Age–Specific Serum Creatinine Trajectories to an Interactive Clinical Interpretation Tool in Level IV NICU Infants (2026)

Research Square DOI OpenAlex
When is 3D Worth It? A Resource-Performance Frontier for CNNs and Transformers in Lung CT (2026)

arXiv (Cornell University) OpenAlex
Ontology-Aligned Representation of Adverse Events in a Multiple Myeloma Clinical Trial (2026)

Studies in health technology and informatics DOI OpenAlex
Generation of Interactive Knowledge Graphs to Enable Research of the Effects of Trauma Center Organization on Patient Outcomes (2025)

Lecture notes in computer science DOI OpenAlex
An Activation Likelihood Estimation Meta-Analysis of Voxel-Based Morphometry Studies of Chemotherapy-Related Brain Volume Changes in Breast Cancer (2025)

Cancers 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
New implementation of data standards for AI in oncology: Experience from the EuCanImage project (2024)

GigaScience 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
Expanding the Ontology of Organizational Structures of Trauma Centers and Trauma Systems. (2024)

PubMed OpenAlex
Knowledge Representation and Management in the Age of Long Covid and Large Language Models: a 2022-2023 Survey (2024)

Yearbook of Medical Informatics 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Comparative Analysis of Adverse Event Reporting on Reddit and the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) (2024)

medRxiv DOI OpenAlex
ADVANCE: a biomedical informatics approach to investigate acute kidney injury in infants (2024)

Pediatric Research 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
EPH169 Integrating Structured and Unstructured Data in Total Hip Arthroplasty Evaluation: A Comprehensive Analysis for Enhanced Device Safety (2024)

Value in Health DOI OpenAlex
Documenting the de-identification process of clinical and imaging data for AI for health imaging projects (2024)

Insights into Imaging 23 citations DOI OpenAlex
New implementation of data standards for AI in oncology. Experience from the EuCanImage project (2024)

medRxiv 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
HCV Medication Receipt Among Individuals With Methamphetamine, Opioid, and Alcohol Use Disorders in Arkansas, 2018–2022: A Long Road Ahead for HCV Elimination in the US South (2024)

Journal of Drug Issues DOI OpenAlex
235 Use of Community Review Boards to Evaluate the Utility of the ICF Navigator - A Browser-based Tool to Create Plain-Language Informed Consent Forms (2023)

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science 1 citation DOI OpenAlex

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Federal Grants 1 $212,716 total

NIH Co-PI Apr 2020 - Apr 2030

Arkansas Center for Health Disparities T32 Pre-doctoral Research Training Program

National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities $212,716 T32

Grants & Funding

As listed on this researcher's institutional profile. Federal awards with verified records are shown above.

Tools for data curation, quality control and data interoperability European Commission via Universitat de Barcelona
TCIA Sustainment and Scalability - Platforms for Quantitative Imaging Informatics in Precision Medicine - Year 4 - Continuation NIH/Nat. Cancer Institute
TCIA Sustainment and Scalability - Platforms for Quantitative Imaging Informatics in Precision Medicine NIH
Trauma Institutional Priorities and Teams for Outcome Efficacy (TIPTOE) NIH