Clinical Teacher Award

Current Winner  

VINCENT J. QUAGLIARELLO, MD, FIDSA, an established expert in the pathogenesis and management of bacterial meningitis and infections among older adults, is the recipient of IDSA’s 2011 Clinical Teacher Award, which honors a career dedicated to teaching clinical infectious diseases to fellows, residents, and medical students and recognizes excellence as a clinician and motivation to teach the next generation of physicians.

Dr. Quagliarello is professor of medicine and clinical chief of the Infectious Diseases Section at Yale University School of Medicine, where he also has served as the director of the Yale Infectious Diseases Fellowship for 21 years. In this role, Dr. Quagliarello has trained numerous fellows, guiding them in academic, clinical, and public health careers.

Dr. Quagliarello excels in education, research, and clinical care. One of his former fellows says of Dr. Quagliarello, “As a clinician, he is sympathetic, thorough, an astute diagnostician, and highly respected for his opinions. He is a walking encyclopedia when it comes to how resourceful he can be.” He has won numerous teaching awards at Yale, where, a colleague says, “he is considered to be one of the best clinicians and educators. Medical students and residents call months ahead of time to make sure their rotation coincides when he is on the teaching service.

In 1980, Dr. Quagliarello received his medical degree Alpha Omega Alpha from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He then served as an intern, resident, and chief resident in medicine at Yale University, followed by an infectious diseases fellowship at the University of Virginia. Later he returned to Yale where he has remained on the faculty with the Section of Infectious Diseases. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and IDSA, and has been ranked as one of the Best Doctors by the New York Magazine for the past 11 years, and Best Doctors in America for the past six years. Dr. Quagliarello has published more than 70 original articles in the scientific literature, including several seminal papers in the New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA, Journal of Clinical Investigation, and Journal of Experimental Medicine. He has four active National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants, including his role as principal investigator of a large R01 funded clinical trial to prevent pneumonia and a K07 Academic Leadership Award from NIH to foster creation of an interdisciplinary program of research on infectious diseases in older adults. He has also served as primary mentor to four trainees as successful recipients of NIH K23 and K08 awards to begin their independent careers.

For his commitment to scholarship, his outstanding clinical skills, and his inspiring mentorship, IDSA is proud to honor Dr. Quagliarello with the 2011 Clinical Teacher Award.

 Past Clinical Teacher Award Winners