CAPT Dunne is an officer and a trauma surgeon in the Navy’s Medical Corps. He is currently assigned to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. He serves as the chief of the integrated trauma service for both Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Medical Center. He is in charge of caring for all wounded marines, sailors and soldiers returning from Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. His responsibilities include coordinating all aspects of medical care for every wounded service member. He has been instrumental in developing and chairing the National Naval Medical Center’s multi-disciplinary trauma team and has served as the chief trauma consultant aboard the USNS Comfort during he assault phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In addition to his vast clinical experience, he has also been active in surgical and combat trauma research. He has completed two separate post-doctoral research fellowships and has published numerous articles in peer reviewed journals with emphasis on blood transfusion and its effect on morbidity and mortality in trauma. Dr. Dunne received his B.S. from the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana in 1986 and his MD in 1990 from the University of Illinois. Upon receiving his commission in the U.S. Navy in June of 1990, he entered surgical internship at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. Following completion of his internship in 1991, he served one year as the chief medical officer aboard the USS Saratoga while attached to Fleet Surgical Team II. In 1997, he completed a five-year general surgery residency at the National Naval Medical Center in addition to a one year post doctoral research fellowship. Upon completion of his surgical residency, he served one year as the department head of surgical services at the Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay Cuba and two years as the department head of general surgery and chief of the medical staff at the Naval Hospital in Groton, CT. In 2000, he entered a two-year trauma fellowship at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center and the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, MD, where he also completed another post-doctoral research fellowship.