Bonnie Cole received her J.D. degree from Walter F George School of Law, Mercer University. She also received a Masters degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Mercer University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist and completed a fellowship in Behavioral Science and Family Systems Education for Family Medicine Residency Programs. Bonnie Cole is a behavioral science faculty member at the Atrium Health Navicent Primary Care West Macon, a Facility of Atrium Health Navicent The Medical Center, and special interests are "building bridges" between law and medicine, personality disorders and typologies, general systems theory, and cognitive therapy techniques and interventions.