Prof. Eamonn M.M. Quigley

Eamonn M M Quigley MD FRCP FACP FACG FRCPI

Eamonn M M Quigley graduated MB BCh BAO (hons) from University College Cork in Cork, Ireland in 1976. Following internship, he completed the internal medicine rotation in Glasgow, Scotland (1977-81) becoming MRCP (UK) in 1979. Funded by a Fogarty fellowship by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and an Ainsworth Scholarship by UCC, he pursued research with Dr. Sidney Phillips at the Mayo Clinic from 1981 to 1983.

On moving to the University of Manchester, UK in 1983, as lecturer in the department of medicine [chair: Prof (now Lord) Leslie Turnberg] he completed accreditation in general internal medicine and gastroenterology and studied mucosal defence in the upper gastrointestinal tract. In 1986, he joined the section of gastroenterology and hepatology at the University of Nebraska Medical Centre (UNMC) as an Assistant Professor, subsequently advancing to Associate Professor and Professor of Medicine and Physiology and Chief of the section. He developed there a clinical research centre for the study of gastrointestinal motility and pursued parallel studies in a variety of in vitro and in vivo animal models.

In 1998, Prof. Quigley returned to Cork as Professor of Medicine and Human Physiology and was the first Head of the Medical School from 2000-7. He is a principal investigator in the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (APC), funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) in 2003.

Prof. Quigley is Vice President of the American College of Gastroenterology and a past Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Gastroenterology.

He has published over 400 original articles, reviews, editorials, book chapters; authored or co-authored six books and monographs. He has received a variety of honours and awards from medical and gastroenterological societies and universities throughout the world.