Kyran Quinlan, MD, MPH

Dr. Kyran Quinlan is an academic general pediatrician and former Chair of the Executive Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Injury Violence and Poison Prevention. He is Professor of Pediatrics and Division Director for General Pediatrics at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Dr. Quinlan is the PI of the CDC-funded Sudden Unexpected Infant Death-Case Registry for Cook County, Illinois. Dr. Quinlan completed the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention focused on child injury epidemiology and prevention at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. He has published numerous studies on child safety in the peer-reviewed literature and has been successful in helping to protect children through community advocacy efforts. He received an MD from Loyola University in Chicago, completed his pediatric residency training at the University of Chicago, and received a Masters in Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was a Physician Advocacy Fellow of the Center on Medicine as a Profession of Columbia University working on child pedestrian safety in low-income areas on the south side of Chicago.