Robert Dunbar

Dr Robert Dunbar is a board-certified orthopaedic trauma surgeon at the Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, USA. He did his medical training at the Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC and his Orthopaedic Surgery residency training at Cornell’s Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. He then served both overseas and in Norfolk, VA in the US Navy, attaining the rank of Commander. After completing his Orthopaedic Trauma fellowship at Harborview Medical Center, he was asked to join the orthopaedic trauma group there.

Dr. Dunbar is now in his twentieth year at Harborview Medical Center/University of Washington and is a senior attending and an associate professor at the University of Washington. Dr. Dunbar has helped train over one hundred orthopaedic trauma fellows and over two hundred orthopaedic surgery residents. He has given hundreds of talks locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. He is the immediate past president of the Foundation for Orthopaedic Trauma, the US chapter of the Osteosynthesis and Trauma Care Foundation.

Dr. Dunbar’s clinical and research interests include fractures of the lower limb, particularly periarticular fractures about the knee and ankle joints, including distal femur fractures, tibial plateau fractures and tibial pilon fractures.

2022-2024 President, Foundation for Orthopedic Trauma

2011-2024 Associate Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

2005-2011 Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

2005-2024 Attending Surgeon, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA

1998-2005, Active Duty, US Navy, highest rank attained, Commander (0-5)

2002-2003 Orthopaedic Trauma fellowship, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA

1995-1998 Orthopaedic Surgery Residency, Hospital for Special Surgery, NY, NY (PGY 3-5)

1993-1995 Orthopaedic Surgery Residency, Westchester County Medical Center (PGY 1,2)

1989-1993 Georgetown University School of Medicine

PODIUM: National 130, International 70

POSTER: 20

PUBLICATIONS: 50

COURSE DIRECTOR: 20

Journal Reviewer: Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma, The Journal of Knee Surgery, Injury, Journal of Orthopaedic Research and Science, Indian Journal of Orthopaedics, OrthoInfo (an AAOS publication)