Robert Dunne, M.D., FACEP, FAEMS

Robert Dunne, M.D., FACEP, FAEMS, is a professor of Emergency Medicine at Wayne State University, and directs the School of Medicine’s pre-hospital programming, including Emergency Medical Services, Preparedness, EMS Research and more. He is also program director of the WSU EMS fellowship.

The medical director of the Detroit East Medical Control Authority, Detroit 911 and the City of Detroit Fire Department, Dr. Dunne is the author of peer-reviewed papers, book chapters and educational materials. He lectures extensively on emergency medical services, preparedness and topics in trauma and emergency medicine.

He is subspecialty board certified in EMS by the American Board of Medical Specialties. Dr. Dunne has been involved in multiple EMS research projects, including exception from informed consent research trials, serving on the steering committee of the Public Access Defibrillation Trial. He is an investigator for the RES-Q trial, the RAMPART trial, the Poly Heme Trial and other local and national trials. His overall research focus is on improving care of the most vulnerable patients in the most acute medical situations.

Dr. Dunne manages the Detroit agency data of the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival and the Detroit EMS clinical data. He also serves as the conduit for EMS and hospital data relating to patients treated in the prehospital environment. He has led community outreach and coordinated efforts to make Detroit a Heart Safe City.

He serves on the State of Michigan Emergency Medical Services Coordinating Committee and is past president of Michigan’s American College of Emergency Physicians chapter and chairs the Michigan College of Emergency Physicians state EMS Committee.

Dr. Dunne has led community responder efforts to teach residents how to respond to cardiac arrests, opioid overdose and traumatic injury. He provides medical direction for the opioid response initiatives for the city of Detroit and established the medication-assisted treatments program at Ascension St. John Hospital.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Dunne took on many leadership roles across the region. His EMS role expanded to include all of public safety and serving as a medical advisor to the City of Detroit. He served as interim medical director for the Detroit Health Department.

He graduated from the University of Michigan’s Inteflex program (a combined bachelor’s degree/M.D. program). He completed Emergency Medicine residency training at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, where he was chief resident.