Quentin Gabor, MD

I received a BA in Biology from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN, graduating summa cum laude. I completed medical school at the University of Wisconsin. I completed my psychiatry residency at the University of Colorado in Denver, where I was also chief resident.

I am an adult psychiatrist and have devoted my career to treating folks with severe and persistent mental health disturbances, those with physical and mental health challenges, as well as those with new-onset mental health concerns. I have a particular interest in existential psychotherapy and philosophy, and have recently been working to increase the availability of Meaning Centered Psychotherapy for patients with advanced cancer.

I believe in the capacity of individuals to improve the quality of their lives via healthy lifestyles (e.g., social, vocational, nutritional, physical, creative and spiritual endeavors). Additionally, I am consistently impressed with the success of my patients in managing their physical and mental health concerns in collaboration with their professional partners - with the shared goals of minimizing suffering, maximizing health and each individual's purpose and meaning in existence.

Within my department, I serve on the Residency Training Committee and am co-Leader for the Global Community Psychiatry Residency Track. In that role, I am now partnering with other faculty and residents to improve the psychiatric curriculum of the residency program in the areas of: the history of psychiatry; ethics; spirituality; cultural and public psychiatry; and forensic psychiatry. Within the University of Minnesota Medical School, I was the faculty supervisor of the medical students' mental health outreach program to Puerto Rico (following Hurricane Maria). I am also Chief of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota's Federally Qualified Health Center, called the Community - University Health Care Center.