A Dean Without Credentials

The University of South Dakota School of Medicine’s Admissions Committee authorship listing reads like that of Letterman’s Top Ten list. So that all readers can observe the incompetence of this assembled “committee,” we are going to publish each PhD members academic publications as a single post. We won’t bother with the MD members … they have no publications of significance. To qualify as a publication, the manuscript must be peer-reviewed and available through PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez).

Paul Bunger PhD, Dean of Admissions, University of South Dakota School of Medicine:

Publications: 10

Publications as First Author: 2 (c.1981 and 1982)

Publications as Senior Author: 1 (c.1979)

From what has already been displayed in this blog, Dr. Bunger is hardly qualified to be listed as an Associate Professor, member of the Medical School Admissions Committee, or Dean of Admissions in the School of Medicine. From our analysis, it would seem that Dr. Bunger is a failure as a scientist and has been provided an “administrative” position to continue to put food on the table for his family. I wonder if these same types of people (i.e., unqualified) are not the same types of people responsible for the dismal economic conditions we are currently experiencing in the USA. Simply, we as South Dakotans MUST STEP-UP and remove these UNQUALIFIED individuals from office.

Dr. Bunger’s last peer-reviewed scientific publication was in 1999. I ask you, is this individual really considered competent to sit in such an important position? Scientifically he has contributed nothing to the scientific and medical community in over a decade. Moreover, his last publication as First Author was TWENTY-SEVEN years ago! This individual is NOT QUALIFIED to be a member of the academic faculty!