Biography
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 NIH 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.
Degrees
- M.D.
- University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
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Scholarly Contributions
Journals/Publications
- Parthasarathy, S., Sahni, j., Patel, S. I., Estep, L., Combs, D. A., Quan, S. F., William, M., Mashaqi, S., Parthasarathy, S., Sahni, j., Patel, S. I., Estep, L., Combs, D. A., Quan, S. F., William, M., & Mashaqi, S. (2023). Case report: A case of complete resolution of obstructive and central sleep apnea with Cheyne Stokes breathing in a patient with heart failure 60 days post-left ventricular assist device implantation. Frontiers in Sleep, 2.
- Woosley, R., Miller, J., Youngstedt, S., Grandner, M., Xia, X., Wendel, C., Perez, K., Zareba, W., Patel, S., Parthasarathy, S., Patel, I., & Quan, S. (2022). 0696 The Application of a QTc Risk Score in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Sleep, 45(Supplement_1), A305-A305. doi:10.1093/sleep/zsac079.692
- Butler, E. A., Glickenstein, D. A., Silva Torres, G. E., Quan, S. F., Thomson, C. A., & Haynes, P. L. (2019). Inconsistent Social Rhythms are Associated with Higher Waist Circumference Following Job Loss. Society of Behavioral Medicine annual meeting.
- Parthasarathy, S., Edgin, J. O., Hsu, C., Morgan, W. J., Quan, S. F., Goodwin III, J. L., & Combs, D. (2019). Mother knows best? Comparing child and parent report of sleep parameters with polysomnography. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.
- Parthasarathy, S., Quan, S. F., Provencio, N., Berryhill, S., Poongkunran, C., Patel, S., Havens, C., Sans-Fuentes, M., Combs, D., & Bailey, O. F. (2019). Delayed sleep time in African Americans and depression in a community-based population. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.
- Burgess, J. L., Witten, M. L., Nanson, C. J., Hysong, T. A., Sherrill, D. L., Quan, S. F., Gerkin, R., & Bernard, A. M. (2003). Serum pneumoproteins: A cross-sectional comparison of firefighters and police. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 44(3), 246-253.
Proceedings Publications
- Glickenstein, D. A., Kobayashi, U., Silva, G. E., Quan, S. F., Thomson, C. A., Apolinar, G., & Haynes, P. L. (2019, Fall). Social rhythm instability is associated with abdominal adiposity after involuntary job loss.. In Sleep.
- Glickenstein, D. A., Kobayashi, U., Silva, G. E., Quan, S. F., Thomson, C. A., Apolinar, G., & Haynes, P. L. (2020, June). Social rhythm instability is associated with abdominal adiposity after involuntary job loss.. In Sleep, 43, A397-398.
- Haynes, P. L., Welty, C. W., Quan, S. F., Apolinar, G. R., & Skobic, I. (2019, Spring). Prevalence of Marijuana Use Versus Evidence Based Treatments for Sleep and Relaxation. In Sleep, 42, A144.
- Quan, S., Perfect, M., Powers, L. S., Chen, S., Quan, S. F., Roveda, J. M., & Li, A. (2017, Spring). Dream Sweet Dreams: A New Framework for Sleep Tracking and Body Change Prediction”, Keynote, Simulation and Modeling for Medical Systems. In ACM simulation series; Virginia Beach, VA, 49, 106-107.
- Roveda, J. M., Slepian, M. J., Perfect, M. M., Quan, S. F., & Rahman, F. (2017, Feb). Embedded systems in Medical devices and their integration with medical data, EMR and Big Data. In International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI).
- Silva Torres, G. E., Rojo-Wissar, D., Quan, S. F., & Haynes, P. L. (2017, June). Sensitivity and Specificity of the Duke Structured Interview for Sleep Disorders to Assess Sleep Disordered Breathing. In Sleep, 40, A180.
- Roveda, J. M., Perfect, M. M., & Quan, S. F. (2016, April 3-6). Modeling and Simulation for pediatric sleep and education performance correlations. In Spring Simulation Multi-Conference.
Presentations
- Woosley, R., Youngstedt, S., Grandner, M., Quan, S. F., Patel, I., Xia, X., Woosley, R., Wendel, C. S., Perez, K., Parthasarathy, S., Zareba, W., & Patel, S. I. (2022). The Application of a QTc Risk Score in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea. SLEEP.More infooral and poster presentation
- Lee-Iannotti, J. K., Quan, S. F., Combs, D., Patel, S. I., Antonescu, C., Kukafka, D. S., & Parthasarathy, S. (2020, June). Test Characteristics of a machine learned Electronic Medical Record Extractable tool for OSA Case Identification in a Community-based Population. 2020 meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies. Philadelphia, PA.
- Butler, E. A., Glickenstein, D. A., Silva Torres, G. E., Quan, S. F., Thomson, C. A., & Haynes, P. L. (2019, Spring). Inconsistent Social Rhythms are Associated with Higher Waist Circumference Following Job Loss. Society of Behavioral Medicine annual meeting. Washington D.C.: Society of Behavioral Medicine.
- Parthasarathy, S., Skrepnek, G. H., Combs, D., Quan, S. F., DeArmond, R. L., Provencio, N., Sarah, B., Wendel, C., & Patel, S. I. (2019, June). Effects of peer support participation on peer mentors. 2019 meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies. San Antonio, TX.
Poster Presentations
- Patel, S. I., Parthasarathy, S., Miller, J., Youngstedt, S., Grandner, M., Quan, S. F., Patel, I., Woosley, R., Xia, X., LaFleur, B. J., Zareba, W., & Perez, K. (2022). Changes in markers of ventricular repolarization and positive airway pressure therapy: A pilot study. SLEEP.
- Parthasarathy, S., Quan, S. F., Provencio, N., Berryhill, S., Patel, S., Poongkunran, C., Combs, D., Havens, C., Sans-Fuente, M., & Bailey, O. (2018, June). Delayed sleep time in African Americans and depression in a community-based population. 2018 meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies. Baltimore, MD.
- Combs, D., Goodwin, J., Quan, S. F., Morgan, W. J., Edgin, J. O., & Parthasarathy, S. (2017, June). Mother knows best? Comparing child and parent report of sleep parameters with polysomnography. 2017 meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies. Boston, MA.
- Parthasarathy, S., Edgin, J. O., Morgan, W. J., Quan, S. F., Goodwin, J., & Combs, D. (2017, June). Mother knows best? Comparing child and parent report of sleep parameters with polysomnography. 2017 meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.
- Quan, S. F., Haynes, P. L., Sherrill, D. L., Silva Torres, G. E., Gengler, D., Glickenstein, D. A., Rojo-Wissar, D., Oliver, R., Nair, U. S., Nair, U. S., Oliver, R., Rojo-Wissar, D., Gengler, D., Glickenstein, D. A., Silva Torres, G. E., Sherrill, D. L., Haynes, P. L., & Quan, S. F. (2017, March). High prevalence of over the counter sleep aid use among individuals who have experienced involuntary job loss. Society of Behavioral Medicine. San Diego, CA.
- Parthasarathy, S., Parthasarathy, S., Quan, S. F., Quan, S. F., Desai, B., Desai, B., Patel, S. I., Patel, S. I., Combs, D., Combs, D., Kulkarni, H., Kulkarni, H., Partha, M., Partha, M., Berryhill, S., Berryhill, S., Wendel, C. W., Wendel, C. W., Morton, C. J., , Morton, C. J., et al. (2018, December). EMR- And Clinic-Based Approaches For Recruiting Peer Support For Sleep Apnea. 2019 meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies. San Antonio, TX.
