Stewart Dunn - Manager, PMCCC

Stewart Dunn is Professor of Medical Psychology in the Northern Clinical School, based at Royal North Shore Hospital, and Visiting Medical Psychologist at the Mater Hospital. He has extensive teaching commitments in the Sydney Medical Program and his clinical specialty is psychological care of cancer patients and their families.

Stewart completed Fellowship studies in the USA and UK, and conducted research at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital before his appointment in the Department of Psychological Medicine at RNSH in 1995. He has published widely in psychological aspects of medical illness and doctor-patient communication and he has received nine research travel awards and five teaching awards including the USyd Faculty of Medicine Outstanding Teaching Award in 2005. His other interests include multidisciplinary teams, medical error and open disclosure and he has been Chair of the Human Research Ethics Committee for NSCCH since 2001.

Stewart suffers chronic withdrawal from three years of trekking in the Nepal Himalayas as a student in the late 1970s.

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