Edward J. Dunn, M.D., M.P.H., M.P.A., M.B.A.

Edward J. (Ed) Dunn is Associate Professor of Medicine, Palliative Medicine, at the University of Louisville School of Medicine in Louisville, KY. He joined the U of L School of Medicine faculty in January 2022 after serving as Medical Director of Palliative Care and Consultant in Clinical Medical Ethics at Norton Healthcare in Louisville, KY from 2016 to 2021. Ed has 2 adult children and 9 grandsons who live in Wilmington, NC and Washington, DC, respectively.
Dunn earned an BA degree in Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN and MD degree at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. He completed a residency in General Surgery at LSU in New Orleans, a Vascular Surgery fellowship at Baylor Medical Center in Dallas, and Cardiothoracic Surgery fellowship at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. He practiced Cardiothoracic Surgery for 20 years (1980-1998, 2001-2003) in Cincinnati, OH (1980-1987), Milwaukee, WI (1987-1998)) and Cambridge, MA (2001-2003)., respectively. In 2000-2001 he was an RWJ Health Policy Fellow and legislative staff for Senator Edward Kennedy on the US Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. From 2003 to 2009 he was director of policy and clinical affairs for the VA National Center for Patient Safety in Ann Arbor, MI. From 2009 to 2015, he served as associate chief of staff for quality, safety and risk management and director of the ethics consultation service for the Lexington VA Medical Center in Lexington, KY. During that period, he was principal investigator for the development and implementation of a 3-year VA funded grant program to develop a teaching model for the disclosure of adverse medical events to patients and their families. He holds a BA degree from the University of Notre Dame, an MD from Wayne State University, an MBA from Northwestern University and a Doctor of Science degree in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health. In 2013-2014, he completed a fellowship in Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago MacLean Center, and in 2015-2016, he completed a fellowship in Hospice & Palliative Medicine at Wright State University in Dayton, OH. He has been practicing Palliative Medicine in Louisville, KY since 2016. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery in Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Medical Director of Palliative Care and Chairman of the Ethics Committee at the Jewish Hospital in Louisville, KY.