Ian F. Dunn, MD

OU Health Sciences Center / OU Health
Oklahoma City, United States

Ian F. Dunn, M.D., is the Harry Wilkins, MD Chairman and Professor of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, joining the campus in November 2018. As of 2021, he now also serves as Chief Physician Executive of OU Health and President of OU Health Partners, Inc., and was recently appointed Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine.

He received his MD from Harvard Medical School followed by his internship and residency in neurosurgery at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, learning pituitary surgery with Dr. Edward Laws. Dr. Dunn completed his clinical fellowship in Skull Base Neurosurgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences/St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, with Dr. Ossama Al-Mefty. Prior to joining the University of Oklahoma, he served for 8 years on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, during which time he built a high-volume, complex cranial and skull base surgical practice in Boston and founded the Center for Skull Base and Pituitary Surgery.

The central themes of his research are the genomic and immunologic underpinnings of cranial base tumors and technical nuances of skull base and endonasal surgery. He has authored or co-authored over 250 publications and 40 book chapters chapters and has presented nationally and internationally concerning his central focus on complex brain tumors at the skull base, including those in the pituitary region.