Kieran Quinn

Dr. Kieran Quinn is a General Internist and Palliative Care Clinician-Scientist at Sinai Health System and a Clinician-Scientist in the Department of Medicine and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto and an Adjunct Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). His research focusses on using advanced analytic methods and large administrative datasets to improve access and delivery of high-quality end-of-life care for patients with terminal noncancer illness, such as heart failure and dementia, and improving the recognition and care of patients with the post COVID-19 condition (long COVID). Dr. Quinn was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal for Academic Excellence and the John Charles Polanyi Prize in Physiology and Medicine. He served as the Assistant Director of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, and currently is the Assistant Director of the Ontario Public Health Emergencies Science Advisory Committee and an Expert Member of the Chief Science Advisor’s National Task Force on the Post COVID-19 Condition. His early research success includes over $27 million dollars in competitive grant funding and 3 CIHR grants as nominated principal applicant. He has 70 peer-reviewed publications, including 47 as first author or senior author in high impact journals such as JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, BMJ and CMAJ.