James P. Dunn

Dr. Dunn received his undergraduate degree from Amherst College before graduating from The University of Medicine and Dentistry-New Jersey Medical School in Newark, NJ in 1984. He then completed an internship in internal medicine at The North Carolina Baptist Hospital/Wake Forest University, followed by a residency in ophthalmology at New York University from 1985-88. He subsequently undertook fellowships in Cornea and External Disease at the Jules Stein Eye Institute/UCLA School of Medicine and Cornea and Uveitis at the Francis I. Proctor Foundation/UC San Francisco. He was board certified in Ophthalmology in 1990. He was an Instructor in Ophthalmology at Proctor from 1990-91. He then joined the Division of Ocular Immunology at The Wilmer Eye Institute of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1991, where he was Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology from 1991-96 and Associate Professor from 1996-2003. He has served for many years as the Johns Hopkins site principal investigator for several multicenter trials sponsored by the National Eye Institute, including the Studies of Ocular complications of AIDS and the Multicenter Uveitis Steroid Trial.