Michael J. Quon

Degrees
Ph.D. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
MD. Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Current position
Professor of Medicine & Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Appointments
Chief, Diabetes Unit and Tenured Senior Investigator, NCCAM, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Associate Member, Greenbaum Cancer Center, Experimental Therapeutics Program
Professor, Graduate Program in Life Sciences, Molecular Medicine Program, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Associate Editor, Am. J. Physiol.: Endocrinology and Metabolism
Editorial Board, Journal of Biological Chemistry
Editor-in-Chief, Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders
American Diabetes Association (ADA) Scientific Sessions Meeting Planning Committee
Investigator, Hypertension-Endocrine Branch, NHLBI, NIH, Bethesda, MD
American Diabetes Association (Takeda) Minority Mentor Award

Consulting experience
Cognolink
Alpha Sights
Burrill and Co.
NGM Biopharmaceuticals
Price Waterhouse Coopers
Richardson Patrick Westbrook & Brickman

Biography
Dr. Michael J. Quon completed his undergraduate education in Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University in 1982. Subsequently, he obtained both a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering (1987) as well as an M.D. (1988) from Northwestern University. After a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago (1988-90), Dr. Quon completed subspecialty training in Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (1990-93) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). During this time, Dr. Quon also received post-doctoral training in molecular biology in the laboratory of Dr. Simeon I. Taylor (1991-1995). From 1995-2001, Dr. Quon was a tenure-track Investigator in the Hypertension-Endocrine Branch of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at NIH where he established a productive independent laboratory that studied molecular mechanism of insulin action and insulin resistance as they relate to diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular diseases. Dr. Quon also performed patient-oriented clinical studies to understand the physiology of glucose metabolism and the hemodynamic actions of insulin in humans. In addition, he used mathematical modeling at both the molecular and whole body level to gain additional insights into insulin action. In 2002, Dr. Quon was appointed as a tenured Senior Investigator and Chief of the Diabetes Unit in the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at NIH where he continued his laboratory and clinical studies on insulin action and insulin resistance. In particular, Dr. Quon elucidated mechanisms for nutritional supplements and functional foods to either improve or impair metabolic and vascular actions of insulin using molecular, cellular, physiological, mathematical, and clinical research approaches. Dr. Quon joined the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2011.



Dr. Quon currently serves as Associate Editor for the American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism and is Editor-in-Chief of Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders. Dr. Quon received the NIH Director's Award for Mentoring in 2004 and he is the recipient of numerous Mentor and Research Awards from the American Diabetes Association. He is an elected Fellow of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research and the American Heart Association. Dr. Quon has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers in leading medical and scientific journals that have been cited >21,500 times in the scientific literature. Dr. Quon has an H-index of 73 and he is regularly invited to speak at national and international scientific meetings.