Meet the Speaker: Dr. Carrie Quinn, M.D. ’96

Dr. Carrie Quinn ’96 is a primary care pediatrician and the executive director of the Mount Sinai Parenting Center. Her work at the Parenting Center promotes strong parent-child relationships and early childhood development by training healthcare professionals and transforming the physical environment to enhance existing pediatric healthcare interactions. Her team has created a free, online residency curriculum, the Keystones of Development, that demonstrates how to promote positive parenting behaviors during routine well child visits. This curriculum is currently being used to train thousands of residents at over 450 residency programs across the country. In addition, the Parenting Center has produced a suite of parenting resources and videos, including Caring For Your Newborn and the Sparks Parent Video Series, which blend the promotion of social-emotional and cognitive development with medical, safety, sleep and nutrition guidance. In 2019, the Parenting Center created an early childhood ad campaign, trained hundreds of hospital staff members and installed over 100 messages throughout hospital units that encouraged back and forth, brain-building interactions between adults and children.  Prior to her work with the Parenting Center, Dr. Quinn practiced primary care in Queens, New York and at the Faculty Practice within the Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She received her undergraduate degree in Science-Business from the University of Notre Dam in 1996 and her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine.  Dr. Quinn completed her residency in Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center in the Boston Combined Residency Program.