2014 Alumni Medalist Donald O. Quest, MD ’70PS
Channel: Columbia Alumni
Date: 2014-12-12

Donald O. Quest, MD ’70PS is a son of the Midwest, born in St. Louis, attended the University of Illinois on a Navy Scholarship, and served in combat as a Naval Aviator aboard the USS Kittyhawk in the Vietnam conflict, prior to matriculating at Columbia
University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1966. He spent two years as an
intern and resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital before returning to the
Neurological Institute of New York at the then Columbia Presbyterian Hospital,
before joining the faculty at Physicians and Surgeons where he has risen to Professor
of Neurological Surgery, served as Vice-Chairman and Acting Chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery, and has added the responsibilities of Assistant Dean of Students to his duties.