Dr. David Michael Quillen is a Clinical Professor in the Primary Care and Population Health Division at Stanford School of Medicine. He is well-known for his commitment to medical education and his deep interest in fostering growth among medical students and family medicine residents in a compassionate and supportive environment. His residency teaching career started in 1995, and he has received prestigious accolades throughout his career, including the UFHealth Quality Leader Award. Dr. Quillen has been repeatedly recognized as an Exemplary Teacher at his previous institutions and programs.
He joined Stanford in 2024 with a vision to create a new residency program that brings the best of academics and community to train competent and well-rounded physician leaders to serve the community. He has a passion for resident education and has help train over 250 family medicine physicians. Four of his former residents are current or retired family medicine residency program directors and many more are residency faculty.
In addition to his teaching role, Dr. Quillen is an expert in quality improvement in healthcare and medical informatics. He has completed training programs for healthcare leaders at esteemed institutions such as Intermountain Healthcare and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Dr. Quillen was born and grew up in Massachusetts. He graduated from Colby College, Waterville, ME in 1986 with a B.A. in Chemistry and History. He started graduate school at Duke University, Durham, NC in 1996 and left in 1998 to start medical school at Wake Forest School of Medicine. In the summer of 1990, Dr. Quillen married Amy Bailey and because she was starting law school at UNC Chapel Hill, Dr. Quillen transferred and finished his 3rd and 4th year of medical school at UNC. In 1995 he completed his Family Medicine residency program at Duke University and in 1996 he complete Duke’s Faculty Development Fellowship.
Dr. Quillen’s first faculty position started in the summer of 1996 as an assistant professor at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama as a core family medicine residency faculty member. In October of 1998 Dr. Quillen joined the University of Florida, College of Medicine, Department of Community Health and Family Medicine as a core family medicine residency faculty member. He was promoted to associate professor in 2006. Over the 21 years at the University of Florida Dr. Quillen participated in a variety of different opportunities that included serving on the COM admissions committee for 6+ years, Associate Chief Medical Information Officer for 2+ years, multiple hospital committees, Treasurer, vice-president and president of the COM faculty Council, chair of the University Faculty Senate and member of the University of Florida Board of Trustees. In 2019, Dr. Quillen joined the University of Central Florida faculty as associate professor and family medicine residency director for the UCF/HCA North Florida Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Quillen was promoted to professor in December of 2023. Dr. Quillen started at Stanford University School of Medicine in February of 2024.
In 2022, Dr. Quillen enlisted and was commissioned as a Major in the Florida Army National Guard. He has served with HHC 2-124 infantry unit based in Orlando, FL and was deployed twi times for State Emergencies associate with Hurricane Ian and Hurricane Idalia. In July of 2024, Dr. Quillen was accept in transfer into the California Army Nation Guard and is with the 297th MCAS unit based in San Mateo, CA. Major Quillen was awarded the Army Achievement Medal in 2023 for his selfless service.
Personal:
Dr. Quillen and Amy Quillen have 3 children. Michael is a family medicine resident at Cone Health in Greensboro, NC. Joshua is a medical student at Rocky Vista University Osteopathic Medical School in St. Georges, UT. Emma is an undergraduate at Rollins College in Orlando, FL.
Dr. Quillen has collected a number of different hobbies and activities over the past 60 years. As a former collegiate swimmer, he continues to swim multiple times a week and considers it his “happy therapy”. He has a passion for cycling that a few years ago got out of control and resulted in being a part owner in a bicycle store. After a few falls’ mountain biking and getting out of retail, the cycling focus has become more sensible and less painful. Woodworking has been a life long hobby and Dr. Quillen is now building his west coast shop so he can continue to make furniture and other useful items.