Davin Kenneth Quinn, MD

Psychiatry

Biography

Dr. Quinn received a B.A. degree in Psychology (1998) from Princeton University. He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree (2004) from Harvard Medical School. Following his M.D. degree he completed a 4-year residency in Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital/Mclean Hospital.

Personal Statement

My current interests as an academic psychiatrist at the University of New Mexico include the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral manifestations of neurologic diseases and traumatic brain injury, the diagnosis and treatment of major depressive disorder in diverse populations, and the safe and effective use of neuromodulation therapies to treat psychiatric symptoms.

Following the conclusion of my fellowship training at Massachusetts General Hospital, I joined the UNM Department of Psychiatry in 2009, assumed medical directorship of the UNMH Psychiatric Consultation Service, and achieved board certification in adult psychiatry and consultation-liaison psychiatry. By applying evidence-based practice and ensuring high standards of consultation with a focus on helpfulness, I oversaw the near-doubling of the volume of the service. I founded the UNM/NMVAHCS Fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine to train more specialists in consultation-liaison psychiatry, and have graduated seven CL psychiatrists. I formed and have served as Chief of the Division of Behavioral Health Consultation and Integration for the past four years, leading growth and expansion of psychiatric treatment in the areas of primary care, medical and surgical subspecialties, and at Sandoval Regional Medical Center. I am now the Vice Chair for Adult Clinical Services for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. I have organized national conference symposia, written textbook chapters, and designed professional curricula in the areas of medical catatonia, traumatic brain injury, delirium, depression in kidney disease, noninvasive neuromodulation, and psychiatric complications in hepatitis C.

Owing to the large numbers of neurologically impaired patients requiring psychiatric consultation at UNM, I sought and achieved board certification in behavioral neurology/neuropsychiatry in 2012. I established a traumatic brain injury clinic co-located in the outpatient Neurosurgery Clinic to specifically address the needs of this population. In November of 2016 I became board-certified in brain injury medicine, and in my current outpatient practice I routinely handle neurobehavioral problems after TBI including agitation and impulsivity, executive dysfunction, and apathy. I am one of a small group of clinicians in the country who are board-certified in adult psychiatry, consultation psychiatry, behavioral neurology, and brain injury medicine.

My interest in neuromodulation began with my efforts to treat patients with severe neuropsychiatric syndromes after they failed to respond to pharmacotherapy. I have served as the Division Chief for Psychiatric Neuromodulation at UNM, as an attending on the Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Service, and established the UNM Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Service in 2017. I treat patients clinically with ECT, TMS, vagal nerve stimulation, and deep brain stimulation. As a mentored PI in the UNM Center for Brain Recovery and Repair, I conducted a NIH/NIGMS-funded randomized controlled trial administering transcranial direct current stimulation (TDCS) to patients with mild to moderate TBI to ameliorate chronic cognitive and emotional deficits. I am now the consortium principal investigator for two multi-center Department of Defense-funded randomized controlled trials (NAVIGATE-TBI; CONNECT-TBI) examining targeted neuromodulation for deficits after TBI in US Veterans and Servicemembers using various advanced imaging modalities.