Dunlap has held numerous appointments with increasing responsibilities at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, as professor of medicine and business. She also served as vice chair for clinical affairs, vice president of the UAB Health System for Ambulatory Services and chief of staff and chief operating officer for The Kirklin Clinic, a large, multi-specialty, academic clinic. As a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow, Dunlap worked on the reauthorization of FDA legislation regarding pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biologics, as well as issues related to Medicare, Medicaid, public health, insurance matters,
sustainable growth rate and medical liability. Dr. Dunlap was also a Physician-in-Residence with the
National Governors Association in Washington, DC in 2013. In May 2013, Dunlap was appointed interim Dean for the
University of Virginia School of Medicine, replacing
Steven T. DeKosky, and served a term of eighteen months. Dunlap received a bachelor of arts degree from
Wellesley College; a medical degree from
Duke University; a doctoral degree in microbiology from UAB; and an MBA degree with distinction from the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. ==Publications==