AMC Director J. Werner in Ad Dunning (1987)
Arend Jan (Ad) Dunning (Arnhem, December 14, 1930 - Amsterdam, October 5, 2009) was a Dutch cardiologist.
Dunning was a professor of cardiology at the University of Amsterdam and until 1993 head of the AMC's cardiology department in Amsterdam. However, he is famous for his management work. He was a member of the Health Council. As vice-chairman of the "Committee on Structural and Financing for Health Care" (Dekker Commission) and the Commission of Keuzen in Zorg (1991, "Dunning Commission"), he contributed to the restructuring of the Dutch care system.
Prof. Dr. Dunning has been able to popularize medical-scientific work and make it accessible to a wide public. He had columns in Elsevier and NRC Handelsblad and wrote articles in, among others, The Guide. He published various books such as Brother Donkey (1981), The Inability of Medicine, Enchanted World, and Dust of Dreams. He was the chairman of the commission who prepared the Labor Party's candidate list before the 1998 elections, and one of the founders of the Republican Society. For a long time, Dunning was editor of the Dutch Journal of Medicine.
In 2009, he received the Van Walree Prize for science practitioners, along with Dick van Bekkum.
Dunning died in October 2009 at the age of 78 to the effects of esophageal cancer.
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