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Laura Dunn, MD
Biographical Sketch
| AB, 1988, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA,
Linguistics |
| Post-Baccalaureate, 1992, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr,
PA |
| MD, 1997, University of California, San
Francisco, School of Medicine |
Residency, 2001, University of California,
San Diego, Psychiatry |
| Fellowship, 2002, University of California,
San Diego, Geriatric Psychiatry |
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2002-2007 |
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University
of California, San Diego |
| 2007-Present |
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Urology,
University of California, San Diego |
Laura Dunn, MD, earned her medical degree at UCSF and completed
her
postgraduate training in psychiatry at UC San Diego (UCSD) including
a
fellowship in geriatric psychiatry. She was a member of the psychiatry
faculty at UCSD before coming to UCSF, serving as Associate
Director of the
UCSD Psychiatry Residency Training Program, Associate Director
of the UCSD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program and as Assistant
Director of
the John A. Hartford Center of Excellence in Geriatric Psychiatry.
Dunn, who
holds joint appointments at UCSF in Psychiatry and Urology, serves
as Director of Psycho-oncology for the UCSF Department of Psychiatry.
Her research interests include empirical studies of ethical issues
in clinical research (e.g., informed consent, decision-making
capacity, surrogate consent for
research) as well as studies of psychiatric and psychosocial
issues in
patients with cancer. In 2008 Dunn was elected to the Board of
the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry.
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