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. Dan received his MD degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. After completing internal medicine residency training at Baylor College of Medicine, he practiced general internal medicine in Houston, ultimately becoming a partner with the Medical Clinic of Houston in the Texas Medical Center. He was then recruited to become a clinician educator by Baylor College of Medicine where he focused much of his clinical effort on the inpatient wards at the 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 (Emory University Hospital, Emory University Hospital Midtown, Emory Orthopedic and Spine Hospital, Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital, Emory Johns Creek Hospital, the Atlanta VA Medical Center, Grady Memorial Hospital, Emory Decatur Hospital, and Emory Hillandale Hospital).

Dan’s scholarship has focused primarily on medical education, venous thromboembolism, perioperative management, and clinical problem solving. Dan has been the primary discussant for six “Clinicopathologic Case Conferences (CPCs)” published by the New England Journal of Medicine and has served as the unknown case discussant at regional and national conferences. Dr. Hunt received the Baylor House Staff Teaching Award each year in 1997-2005 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.

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