John Dale Dunn MD JD is a Visiting Fellow for the Science Advisory Committee in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment.

Born in 1946, Dunn is a 50-year physician and 40-year attorney educated at Creighton University, where he was also on the faculty of the Medical, Nursing, and Pharmacy Schools. He taught environmental and healthcare law at Howard Payne University in his hometown of Brownwood Texas. Dunn’s last academic position was 14 years of service as an emergency medicine civilian contract faculty physician for the U.S. Army at Fort Hood, Texas.

He has been an editor of or contributor to three medical textbooks and two legal textbooks, as well as journals in medical science. Dunn has been an essayist and editor/contributor on his areas of interest for the American Council on Science and Health, Reason Magazine, and the Heartland Institute. He was a regular lecturer for the American College of Emergency Physicians and the Heartland Institute. 

He is an expert in the medical science areas of ethics, risk management and patient safety, toxicology, epidemiology, radiation biophysics, emergency medicine, and healthcare policy.

His interest in environmental science and environmental policymaking began 3 decades ago when he taught college level environmental law and continues to the present and he focuses on human health consequences of environmental science and policymaking.