Sci. is a clinician and a professor of clinical medicine. He is one of only 220 graduate members of the select, AMA-Recognized and approved MMSC program in Anesthesiology and Life Support Systems, which combines a high degree of knowledge in the fields of instumentation, clinical research, biomedicine, and medical practice a program within standard medical schools.
Members practice hands-on critical care and anesthesiology in operating rooms across the country.
Dr. Gonto is a full member of the American Academy of Anesthesiology Associates and the American College of Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Gonto teaches hands-on clinical medicine in the operating room to medical students, to anesthesiology students and to resident physicians from Emery School of Medicine, Mercer University School of Medicine, and the University of Georgia School of Medicine. As Dr. Gonto succinctly put it, If you are in the region of the Southeastern seaboard and you come into the hospital with anything serious enough to propel you into the operating room, such as a heart attack or a gunshot wound, the baby blues that peer into your face and the hands attempting to save your life may well be mine. This high degree of training in putting together disparate areas of medical knowledge allowed Dr. Gonto to question the then-accepted veterinary treatment of Fanconi Syndrome when it appeared in his beloved family pet Basenji, Senji. Fanconi Syndrome symptoms were steadily worsening approached the critical stage.