Craig Lindquist, MD, Phd
HVHCI Co-Director Emeritus
Dr. Lindquist was born and reared on a small farm in Northwest Iowa. He attended the University of Iowa as a biology major receiving his BS degree in an accelerated two year program. He completed his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at U of I and Yale respectively while completing clinical rotations at the Peter Bent Brigham and the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. His doctoral thesis was completed under Dr. J Bertino at the Yale Cancer Center and focused on mechanisms of drug resistance of leukemia cells.
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Following completion of his medical studies, Dr. Lindquist completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Yale. He continued on as Chief Medical Resident under Dr. Sam Thier and was a co-founder of Yale’s first HIV/AIDS outpatient services. From New Haven, Dr. Lindquist next moved to San Francisco to complete a fellowship in Hematology/Oncolgy. During his fellowship he conducted research on Kaposi’s sarcoma . Upon completion of his fellowship he joined the UCSF clinical faculty as an attending physician in the Moffitt HIV/AIDS Clinic.
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In the early 1990’s Dr. Lindquist joined the Marin Department of Health and Human Services where he developed a County-based HIV/AIDS clinic and supervised an AIDS Clinical Trials program. He was co-PI on a number of ACTG and industry drug trials as well as a consultant to projects involving drug resistance and gene sequencing. After several years in that position he assumed the position of medical director over all of the County’s medical services and periodically served as the County Health Officer at the same time. Near the end of his tenure as Director, Dr. Lindquist’s interests turned to issues in health care design, delivery and costs. Those interests led to post-graduate programs at the UC Berkeley School of Business and the Harvard Business School focusing on issues related to health care.
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Craig re-joins CERC as an adjunct professor with great pleasure and excitement. The CERC staff and the Stanford environs present a great opportunity for a ‘hands on’ experience in designing innovations for application in the real world.
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