 He also became the assistant physician at Sheppard Asylum now known as Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital but left in 1924 to become the medical director of Harlem Lodge (The Richard Gundry Home) until 1939.From 1940-1942, Dunton worked at The Laurel Sanatorium.Dunton was interested in the potential of healing his patients through purposeful activities (known then as daily occupations).