Stuart F Quan, MD

Professor Emeritus

Dr. Quan is Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Arizona where he previously was chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, associate head of the Department of Medicine, program director of the GCRC and director of the Sleep Disorders Center. In addition, he is a senior physician in the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Gerald E. McGinnis Professor of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He also is an adjunct faculty member in the Arizona State University College of Nursing and Health Innovation. He is the founding chief field editor for Frontiers in Sleep; he was the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine and is the initial recipient of an award for editorial excellence named in his honor. Dr. Quan also has served as the president of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, been on the board of directors of the American Board of Sleep Medicine, a member of the Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, and chair of the Sleep Medicine examination committee for the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is the recipient of the Nathaniel Kleitman Distinguished Service and William C. Dement Academic Achievement Awards, both conferred by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Dr. Quan's current research activities have been funded by the National Institutes of Health and focus on the epidemiology of sleep and sleep disorders, particularly sleep disordered breathing, and providing healthy sleep education for the general public. He has written over 400 publications in scientific journals and books and authored a number of educational products for the general public.

Degree(s)

  • MD: University of California, San Francisco, 1974
  • AB: Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 1970
Honors and Awards
Brigham and Women's (Hospital) Health Care's Distinguished Clinician, Boston, 2017
American Academy of Sleep Medicine, Stuart Quan Award for Editorial Excellence, Initial Recipient, 2015
President's Medal for Social Embeddedness, Arizona State University for Your Sleep/Your Life: Su Sueno/Su Vida, Co-Recipient, 2015
American Academy of Sleep Medicine, William C. Dement Academic Achievement Award, 2010
American Academy of Sleep Medicine, Nathaniel Kleitman Award, 2005
American Board of Sleep Medicine, Helmut S. Schmidt Award, 1995
Alpha Omega Alpha, 1973
Phi Beta Kappa, 1970
Residency
Internal Medicine: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1974-77
Fellowship
Pulmonary Medicine: University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson, 1979-80
Emergency Medicine: UCSF School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1978-79
Critical Care Medicine: UCSF School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1977-78
Board Certifications
American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine
American Board of Sleep Medicine, Sleep Medicine