Dr. Ian F Dunn joined the OU College of Medicine in 2018, serving as Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery, holding the Harry Wilkins, M.D. Chair in Neurosurgery. Before joining OU, he served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School and as Director for the Center for Pituitary and Skull Base Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He also served on the OU Health Executive Leadership Team, serving as Chief Physician Executive since October 2021, as well as President of OU Health Partners and Vice Chair of the OU Health Partners Board of Directors. He has also served as Senior Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs at the College of Medicine. In this capacity, he provided crucial leadership since the historic 2021 merger that combined the OU College
of Medicine faculty practice and OU Medicine Inc. to create OU Health, Oklahoma’s first fully integrated academic health system. As Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery, he has ushered substantial growth and development over the past five years, and he has substantially increased its faculty and Advanced Practice Provider team by recruiting the most comprehensive neurosurgical group in the state; it has leveraged innovative approaches such as telehealth to expand clinical services and neurosurgical care to reach even more Oklahomans. He recently became Executive Dean of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and Chief Academic Officer at OU Health.
