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.