Museum Lecture - Professor Frank Dunn

Professor Frank Dunn CBE, DL, DSc, FRCP(Glasg), FACC

Professor Dunn has been interested in the health issues affecting Ben Hogan since his time working in New Orleans at the Ochsner Clinic. The founder of the Clinic was the surgeon who saved Hogan’s life after the road accident in 1949.

Frank met Alton Ochsner a number of times before his death in 1982. How Hogan won all those majors after the accident, we will never know. His tremendous determination and dedication to the game had something to do with it.

Frank's uncle exchanged correspondence with Bobby Jones in the last year of Jones’ life. He now has the letters in my possession, and has always been interested in Jones and in particular the challenges he faced with that most cruel of neurological disease - Syringomyelia. Frank has the full medical history with the reports of the neurologist who looked after Jones in New York.

Personal bio

Professor Dunn is a Past President of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, retired Consultant Cardiologist at Stobhill General Hospital and Honorary Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Glasgow.

He graduated in Medicine from the University of Glasgow and his Postgraduate training was at The Royal Infirmary of Glasgow and in the USA. He was a Staff Member at the Ochsner Medical Institutions in New Orleans and was Assistant Professor of Medicine at Louisiana State University from 1980-83. He then returned to Glasgow as a Consultant Cardiologist at Stobhill Hospital. He was Clinical Director at Stobhill NHS Trust (1994-2000) and North Glasgow Hospitals NHS Trust (2000-2006).

Professor Dunn has 150 publications and 15 book chapters principally in the areas of hypertension and coronary artery disease. He has received research grants from a number of national organisations. Professor Dunn has served on the Council for the British Cardiac Society and the Scottish Cardiac Society. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and holds Honorary Fellowships from American College of a Physicians and the Singapore Academy of Medicine. He is a Deputy Lord Lieutenant for the County of Dunbartonshire and Freeman of the Barony Burgh of Kirkintilloch.

He was Vice President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 2007-2010 and was Presidenfrom 2012-2015. He received a CBE in 2014 for services to Cardiology and the Community.

Outwith Medicine, he loves the game of golf and holds memberships at Lenzie and Royal Troon. He writes a regular column for the Kirkintilloch Herald and is a music request collector for the Hospital Broadcasting Service. He is married to Helen and has two sons and two grandsons. Family has always been a key part of his life.

This lecture wil take place in the Museum galleries and refreshments will be available in the Learning Room. Museum doors will open from 6.30pm with the lectue stating at 7pm. For more information please contact Hannah at [email protected] or 01334 460054.

Host or Publisher Hannah Fleming