James Dunford
James Dunford
James Dunford is a professor emeritus of emergency medicine at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and the former EMS medical director of the city of San Diego.
Articles by James
We All Need to Pitch In to Solve Homelessness — Vote Yes on Measure A
We All Need to Pitch In to Solve Homelessness — Vote Yes on Measure A
This is an independent opinion. IVN San Diego invited all campaigns, including the No on Measure A campaign, to submit commentary. Have an opinion of your own? Send it to hoa@ivn.us As the EMS medical director of the city of San Diego for 20 years and a career UCSD faculty emergency physician I saw plenty of health and economic damage inflicted by homelessness. Not a day went by in the Emergency Department that I didn’t factor a patient’s housing status in a discharge plan. I knew homeless pati...
08 Oct, 2020
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5 min read