Rate My Professor Jenni Quint

Professor Jennifer Quint is Professor of Respiratory Epidemiology in the School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London, where she leads the Respiratory Electronic Health Record Group. She holds honorary consultant positions in respiratory medicine at Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Quint obtained her BSc in Molecular Medicine with first-class honours and MBBS from the University of London in 1999 and 2000. She completed her PhD on the determinants of exacerbation frequency in COPD at University College London in 2010, followed by an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2011. A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2015 and the Royal College of Physicians since 2016, her career includes prior roles as Reader (2018-2020) and Clinical Senior Lecturer (2015-2018) in Respiratory Epidemiology at Imperial's National Heart and Lung Institute, Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology at LSHTM (2014-2015), and various clinical and research positions earlier.

Quint's research focuses on respiratory epidemiology using electronic health records to investigate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, bronchiectasis, and interstitial lung disease. Her interests include COPD exacerbations and vascular outcomes, environmental factors such as air pollution and temperature on exacerbations, and validation of disease identification in records. Notable projects involve linking national pollution monitors with primary care data and personal pollution monitors for COPD patients. She has published over 580 papers with more than 12,000 citations, including the Lancet paper 'Identifying patients with first chronic obstructive pulmonary disease' (2021). Quint holds leadership roles as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Thorax, Deputy Director of the BREATHE Hub for Respiratory Health, chair of NHS England's Respiratory Data Strategy, leader of the HDR UK Respiratory Data Science Catalyst, and Deputy Director (Academic) of Imperial's Early Career Researcher Institute. She has received grants from MRC, HDR UK, GSK, BI, and Asthma + Lung UK.