User:WilliamWQuick

William W. Quick, MD, FACP, FACE, is board-certified in both internal medicine and in endocrinology and metabolism, and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Endocrinology. Bill, as he prefers to be called, is a nationally-known expert in diabetes education, and is a past president of the American Association of Diabetes Educators.

Dr. Quick has 30+ years of clinical experience including over ten years in pharmaceutical medicine with Parke-Davis, Pfizer, Aventis, Sanofi-Aventis, Schering-Plough, i3 Research, i3 Drug Safety, and Astellas. He had previously served as a pharmacovigilance officer for drugs in development as well as for marketed products, and has held management positions at several companies.

Prior to joining the pharmaceutical industry, he served in the US Public Health Service in Alaska, was Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of South Dakota, and was in private practice in endocrinology, with an emphasis on diabetes care. He has been active in the ADA for more than 30 years, and is a Past President of the American Association of Diabetes Educators. He has been a member of DIA, AACE, the Endocrine Society, and the American College of Physicians.

His CV is available at http://www.swq.com/cv-wwq.pdf

Websites
Dr. Quick has written about diabetes on the Internet since 1995, and is the editor of a new diabetes website, D-is-for-Diabetes (http://d-is-for-diabetes.com). He is also a regular contributor at MyDiabetesCentral.com. He is also the volunteer webmaster for the Charleston Sail and Power Squadron.

Bill and Steph's personal website is Katz & Dawgs Unlimited, http://www.kanddu.com

Personal Life
Bill was born in 1943. He attended college at the College of Wooster in Ohio (1960-64), then medical school at Downstate Medical Center in NY (1964-68). His internship, residency, and endocrinology fellowship were at the University of Missouri in Columbia MO (1968-1972). He was in the private practice of endocrinology in SD, IA, and MO from 1974 to 1998, and then entered the pharmaceutical industry in 1998, where he has worked in MI, NJ, and SC.

In 2005, Bill developed diabetes, and immediately started on a basal/bolus insulin program. He switched to an insulin pump in June, 2008. He has used CGM since September, 2010.

He describes his hobbies as throwing frisbees for his dogs, and writing about diabetes. And on summer weekends, he and Steph will frequently be found on their sailboat, daysailing in Charleston harbor.