Professor Jennifer Quint

MSc PhD FHEA FRCP

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Prof. Quint received her BSc MBBS degrees from the University of London, UK before going on to gain a PhD from University College London and an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UoL. More recently, she became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Royal College of Physicians. Prof. Quint is currently a professor of respiratory epidemiology at the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI), Imperial College London.

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Furthermore, she leads a clinical epidemiology research group covering various areas of respiratory and cardiovascular disease. Her work centres largely on the use of electronic health records to study COPD and other chronic respiratory diseases, including bronchiectasis and asthma. The majority of this work has been on exploring both the effect of COPD exacerbations on vascular outcomes and the relationship between environmental factors and exacerbations of COPD.

 

Prof.  Quint was awarded a COPD Rising Star award at COPD10 in 2016 as well as being “Highly Commended” at the BMA Medical Book Awards for the Eureka Respiratory Medicine textbook. She currently serves as an associate editor for Thorax,  and is the Information Governance Trustee for the British Thoracic Society.