Quentin Eichbaum MD, PhD, MPH, MMHC, MFA, MA, MSc, MMED, FCAP, FASCP

Dr. Eichbaum was born and raised in Namibia and South Africa, He trained in science, medicine and public health (MD, PhD, MPH and three postdoctoral fellowships) in the USA at Harvard Medical School and MIT, completing clinical training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston where he was also on faculty. He was then recruited to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine as Assistant Dean for Program Development and Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology and Professor of Medical Education and Administration, At Vanderbilt, he developed, directed a fellowship program in transfusion medicine, and directed the Pathology Program in Global Health, and the Vanderbilt Pathology Education Research Group. He also developed and directed a unique program in medical humanities. He was recently recruited to the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in west New York as vice chair of pathology and laboratory medicine and director or transfusion medicine and blood banking.

He has done extensive work in transfusion medicine, global health, medical education, and medical humanities. He is active is global transfusion and 2017 founded the AABB Global Transfusion Forum and currently serves as chair of its Education Committee. In medical education, he founded and serves on the board of both The Consortium of New Sub-Sahara African Medical Schools (CONSAMS) and the Consortium of Pan African Medical Diasporas (COPAMS) .In global health, he founded chaired several committees and served on the board of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH).In medical humanities, he co-founded and chaired the International Health Humanities Consortium (HHC) and currently chairs the CUGH Global Health Humanities Working Group. He serves on numerous other national and international committees and boards in global health, medicine, and humanities. He has published five books in clinical medicine, and two in medical humanities.