Special Volunteer
Scientist Emeritus
Specialty(s): Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine
Education:
M.Sc., 1970, University of Notre Dame, IN
M.D., 1974, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Biography
Dr. Quinn obtained his M.D. from Northwestern University. He was a research associate in infectious diseases in the NIAID Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases and completed a fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of Washington. He returned to NIAID and later became chief of the Section on International HIV/STI Research. In 2006, he was appointed as associate director for International Research in the Division of Intramural Research. Since 1981, he has been assigned to the division of infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins University, where he became a professor of medicine in 1991, and in 2006 became director of the Center for Global Health. Dr. Quinn is a member of the National Academy of Medicine in the National Academies of Science and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association of American Physicians.