Dan Hunt

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ABOUT DAN HUNT

Dan Hunt, MD is the Director of the Emory Division of Hospital Medicine and Professor of Medicine at Emory University of School of Medicine. Before moving to Emory in 2015, Dan’s professional experience included private practice of general internal medicine, academic internal medicine at a safety-net hospital, extensive involvement in medical education, and substantial leadership experience at major academic medical centers. He practiced general internal medicine in Houston, ultimately becoming a partner with the Medical Clinic of Houston. He was then recruited to become a clinician educator by Baylor College of Medicine focusing his clinical effort at Ben Taub General Hospital. Dr. Hunt was recruited in 2005 by the Massachusetts General Hospital to develop and lead the Inpatient Clinician Educator Service for the Department of Medicine. In 2010, Dan became the Chief of the Hospital Medicine Unit at the MGH, combining the Clinician Educator Service and the larger direct-care Hospital Medicine Group under a unified administrative structure. In his current leadership role, Dr. Hunt serves one of the largest academic hospital medicine divisions in the country. The Emory Division of Hospital Medicine currently includes 166 faculty, 35 affiliated hospitalists, and 25 advanced practice providers who care for patients at nine hospitals in Atlanta. Dan’s scholarship has focused primarily on medical education, venous thromboembolism, perioperative management, and clinical problem solving. Dr. Hunt received the Baylor House Staff Teaching Award each year in 19••••05 along with a number of other Baylor teaching awards. He received the Alfred Kranes Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching at the MGH in 2006 and 2011, the Best Clinical Instructor Award from Harvard Medical School in 2008, the Society of Hospital Medicine Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2011, and a Golden Apple Teaching Award from the Emory Internal Medicine Residency Program in 2016.