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Linda Quan, MD

Emergency Medicine

On staff since June 1976

Children's Title: Past President, Medical Staff; Co-chair, Nominating Subcommittee

Academic Title: Professor, Pediatrics

Research Center: Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development

"I think I personally make the biggest difference in situations where I can help patients deal with fears, expectations and misinformation. It's very satisfying to able to use my judgment and experience to decide when tests and consultants aren't needed — so families can weather their mild illnesses with less anxiety, medications and interruptions in their daily lives."

Linda Quan, MD, is an emergency attending physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital and professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She received her MD from the University of Washington, where she trained as an intern, resident and fellow.

She was chief of emergency services at Seattle Children’s for more than two decades. Quan is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in emergency medicine. She has served on many committees for the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Heart Association, Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMS-C), CDC Injury Prevention, and recently for the American Red Cross. She has spent a large part of her career on research of drowning, drowning prevention, and pediatric resuscitation for which she has received many biomedical grants. Quan has received numerous awards and has an extensive bibliography.

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Research + Passion = Prevention
Dr. Linda Quan and Elizabeth Bennett put Seattle Children’s at the center of efforts to prevent open-water drowning deaths.... cont.

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Board Certification(s): Pediatrics
Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Medical/Professional School: University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle
Residency: Pediatrics, Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle
Fellowship: Pediatrics, Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle
Clinical Interests: Drowning and prevention, Pediatric cardiac arrest
Research Description: Drowning, drowning prevention, pediatric resuscitation.
Research Focus Area: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Publications

Responding to a request: gender-exclusive swims in a Somali community.
Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) , 2010 Jan-Feb: 137-40

Factors influencing booster seat use in a multiethnic community: lessons for program implementation.
Health promotion practice , 2009 Jul: 411-8

To measure delay to CPR interval or not to measure-Is that the question?
Resuscitation , 2009 Mar: 291-2

Impact of a statewide quality improvement initiative in improving the management of pediatric splenic injuries in washington state.
The Journal of trauma , 2008 Jun: 1478-83

Crash analysis of lower extremity injuries in children restrained in forward-facing car seats during front and rear impacts.
The Journal of trauma , 2006 Sep: 592-7

Resuscitation great. Leon Chameides: a gentle giant and the father of pediatric resuscitation.
Resuscitation , 2006 Sep: 348-55

Energy doses for treatment of out-of-hospital pediatric ventricular fibrillation.
Resuscitation , 2006 Jul: 80-9

Adult and pediatric resuscitation: finding common ground.
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association , 2006 Jan 4: 96-8

Emergency mental health care for youth in Washington State: qualitative research addressing hospital emergency departments' identification and referral of youth facing mental health issues.
Pediatric emergency care , 2004 Nov: 742-8

Association of hospital trauma designation with admission patterns of injured children.
The Journal of trauma , 2004 Jul: 119-24; discussion 124

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation training in Washington state public high schools.
Resuscitation , 2003 Mar: 283-8

A randomized, clinical trial of oral midazolam plus placebo versus oral midazolam plus oral transmucosal fentanyl for sedation during laceration repair.
Pediatrics , 2002 May: 894-7

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Seattle Children's

MB.7.520 - Emergency Medicine
4800 Sand Point Way NE

Seattle, WA 98105

206-987-2599

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Seattle Children's Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center

CB-11
1500 - 116th Ave NE

Bellevue, WA 98004

425-454-4644

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