Dana Dunne, M.D.

Section of Infectious Diseases
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Clinical Interests

Dr. Dunne is interested in the management of patients with sexually transmitted diseases. She has been involved in clinical STD care for many years and is the Connecticut medical director for the CDC STD/HIV Prevention Training Center of New England. The Prevention Training Center is a CDC-funded educational resource for keeping clinicians current with STD diagnosis and management. She has special clinical interests in the interactions between bacterial vaginosis and sexual health and of the interactions between STDs, especially HSV, and HIV.

Dr. Dunne is also interested in Travel Medicine and staffs the International Travel Clinic at the Yale Health Plan. She also provides clinical care at the New Haven Health Department STD clinic, and provides care for HIV and general infectious diseases patients at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Research Interests

Dr. Dunne is currently an investigator on a number of HIV clinical trials and is participating in translational projects in Dr. Erol Fikrig's laboratory on innate immunity and immunosuppression.

Education

M.D., SUNY- Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 1986
B.A., Zoology University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1981
Internship and Residency, Yale- New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT 1986-1989
Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine 1989-1990
Fellow, Infectious Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine 1990-1992

Selected Publications

• Dubrow R, Sikkem KJ, Bruce RD, Julian P, Roome A, Dunne DW, Boeving A, Kidder T, Jenkins H, Becker J, Merson M. Diagnosis of Acute HIV infection in Connecticut. Connecticut Medicine 2009 (in press).
• Rowhani-Rahbar A, Niccolai LM, Dunne DW, Green S, Jenkins H, Khoshnood K. Comparative epidemiology of Chlamydia trachomatis infection among men attending sexually transmitted disease clinics with and without indications for testing. International Journal of STD and AIDS. July, 2006, 17; 453-458.
• Niccolai LM, Rowhani-Rallan A, Jenkins H, Green S, Dunne DW. Condom effectiveness for prevention of Chlamydia trachomatis infection. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2005;81;323-5.

Contact

Campus Address
The Anlyan Center
S155

E-mail
dana.dunne@yale.edu

Office Phone
(203) 785-4140

Fax
(203) 785-3306