Kieran Lewis Quinn

Faculty Member

Accepting Students

Dr. Kieran Quinn is a General Internist and Palliative Care Clinician-Scientist at Sinai Health in the Department of Medicine and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto and an Adjunct Scientist at ICES. His research focusses on using advanced analytic methods to enhance access to high-quality end-of-life care for people with noncancer illness and to improve the recognition and care of people with post COVID-19 condition. Dr. Quinn advised the provincial government as a member of the Ontario Palliative Care Network and as Assistant Scientific Director for the Ontario Science Advisory Table. He co-led the establishment of Canada’s national Long COVID research network, was an expert member of the National Task Force on post COVID-19 condition and is a co-chair for the development of clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of post COVID-19 condition in Canada. His early research success includes over 100 publications and more than $29 million dollars in competitive grant funding. Dr. Quinn was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal for Academic Excellence and the John Charles Polanyi Prize in Physiology and Medicine. He has mentored 14 trainees who have published and won several awards for their work together.