robert bunes m.d.

About Robert Bunes M.D.:

Hello, welcome! A bit about myself. I am a retired physician, author, adventurer, world-traveler, and filmmaker. My first-nonfiction novel, Wind, Fire, and Ice: The Perils of a Coast Guard Icebreaker in Antarctica, was published on Oct. 1, 2021 by Lyon Press, a division of Rowman & Littlefield. It is an account my experiences as a ship’s doctor during an historic Antarctic deployment. Kirkus Reviews described the book. as “riveting” and renowned explorer Will Steger viewed it as “a brilliant slice of Polar history.” It is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and in local libraries. It has been well reviewed and has gone into a second printing. Search the title on Amazon to see reviews.

My first semi-fictional novel, Yellowstone’s Restless “Savages”, was published on June 20, 2021. As a filmmaker and videographer, I produced the educational film, Peak Experiences and co-produced several medical educational films, as well as travel and educational films, including a video about the FRAM, the legendary ship designed by Fridtjof Nansen. In 2009, I co-founded AniMazing Spotlight! an international animation festival and education project. My videos are available on my YouTube channel

A Minnesota native, I worked four summers in Yellowstone National Park while attending college and medical school at the University of Minnesota. After receiving my  medical degree, I interned at Highland General Hospital in Oakland, California, and served two years in the U.S. Public Health Service as a General Medical Officer assigned to the US Coast Guard. I was stationed at the Coast Guard Training Center in Cape May, New Jersey and was the Medical Officer aboard the USCGC Glacier during a seven month Antarctic deployment. After my time in the US Coast Guard, I worked as an Internist in Ellsworth, Maine and lived in France before starting my residency at UCLA in Adult and Child Psychiatry. My work as a Court Appointed Evaluator in child custody cases led to a career in Legal Psychiatry, with a focus on evaluating and treating injured workers. I was Board Certified in Psychiatry and Neurology. I retired in 2000 in order to pursue my other interests, including writing.

I have enjoyed and active life, traveled to all seven continents, scuba dived the Great Barrier Reef, skied an iceberg in the Weddell Sea icepack, surfed the coast of Mexico, helicopter skied the Bugaboos, mountain climbed in the Grand Tetons, and sailed in the Caribbean.  I live in the coastal mountains of Southern California with my wife, Gail, close to my daughter, son-in-law, and two grandchildren.

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