Edward J. Dunn, MD, ScD

Dr. Dunn practiced cardiovascular and thoracic surgery for 20 years in Cincinnati, Ohio, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

He began studying health policy and management while in practice by completing the executive MBA program at the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management and continued with an MPA at the Harvard Kennedy School and a ScD in health policy and management at the Harvard School of Public Health. He served as a RWJ Health Policy Fellow in Washington, DC, as a legislative staff member for the Democratic majority on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in Senator Edward Kennedy's office, chair.

After practicing general thoracic surgery and starting the patient safety program at the Cambridge Health Alliance, he joined the Veterans Health Administration as Director of Policy and Clinical Affairs at the VA National Center for Patient Safety in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He then joined the Lexington VAMC as Associate Chief of Staff for Quality and Patient Safety which became the Chief of Performance Improvement with re-organization. He also assumed responsibilities as director of the Systems Redesign program, chair of the integrated ethics leadership council, senior consultant in the ethics consultation program, and senior member of the preventive ethics committee in Lexington. He completed a VA-funded fellowship in Clinical Medical Ethics Consultation at the MacLean Center of Ethics at the University of Chicago. He managed the Integrated Ethics Programs in Lexington and was the senior clinical ethics consultant.

Dr. Dunn was a staff physician on the Hospice & Palliative Medicine service providing inpatient and outpatient medical care. He completed a fellowship in Hospice & Palliative Medicine at Wright State University and achieved certification in Hospice & Palliative Medicine by the American Board of Surgery.