Quentin Gabor
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Credentials
MD
Bio
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 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 the Leader of 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. I am also the Chief of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota's Federally Qualified Health Center, called the Community-University Health Care Center. I have become board certified in Community and Public Psychiatry via the American Association of Community Psychiatrists in January 2023. I am proud of the honor of receiving NAMI's Exemplary Psychiatrist Award in 2023.
Expertise
- Medical impact of mental illness
- General
Administrative Assistant
(for academic support only)
Shelly Slominski
slomi001@umn.edu
In the Media
- 2022: Featured in this KARE 11 interview about an all-too-familiar scenario: "Suspect in Roseville police shooting had a history of threatening behavior".
- 2021: Featured in this piece titled, "Pandemic response has been a roller coaster ride for Department providers and learners".
- 2021: Featured in this WCCO interview titled, "9/11 20 Years Later: Our nation's mental health".
- 2020: Featured in this M Physicians article titled, "National Recovery Month Shines a Spotlight on the Importance of Mental Health". In it, he talks about how he works with patients who struggle with substance abuse
Teaching Summary
I am grateful for the opportunity to teach psychiatry resident physicians and medical students at the University of Minnesota Medical School. I instruct resident physicians on Spirituality and Psychiatry, Ethics in Psychiatry, therapeutic relationships, and psychiatric clinical care including the use of psychotherapy. I instruct medical students on the therapeutic relationship in psychiatric and other medical practices and have lectured on mood disorders. My aspirations include further exploration and scholarly contribution to the interdisciplinary field of Spirituality and Psychiatry; development of evidence-based psychotherapeutic treatment modalities for individuals with a variety of terminal illnesses and chronic ailments that impact one's life path, based on the therapeutic approach utilized for patients with cancer (i.e. Meaning Centered Psychotherapy, Logotherapy, and more broadly existential psychotherapy in general); and to contribute to the field of Psycho-Oncology.
Clinical Summary
I have a particular interest in existential psychotherapy and philosophy and have worked to increase the availability of Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for patients with advanced cancer. I approach each patient interaction with the goal of understanding the unique individual that I am partnering with, and to render the most accurate and comprehensive diagnostic impression. In collaboration with my patient, a patient-centered treatment plan is crafted to reduce distress, optimize well-being, and enhance the unique significance and purpose of each person's existence.