Professor James Dunbar received his MB ChB from the University of St. Andrews in 1972, followed by a MD from the University of Dundee in 1990.  He holds Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and is also a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine. 

Professor Dunbar has recently taken up post as the inaugural Director of the Greater Green Triangle Department of Rural Health, a joint venture between Flinders and Deakin Universities.  The main offices are based at the Warrnambool campus of Deakin University and in Mt Gambier.   The mission of the department is “To create a ‘Network for Excellence’ in health professional education, population health services, research and clinical service throughout the Greater Green Triangle (GGT) region.”        

Prior to Professor Dunbar taking up his current appointment he was the Medical Director at the Borders Primary Care NHS Trust in the UK and Honorary Reader in Health Care Policy at St Andrews University.  For over twenty years he was a GP in Dundee and Senior Clinical Tutor in GP at the University. His interests lie in population health, and quality improvement in healthcare.