Jorge M. Quiñonez, MD
Jorge M. Quiñonez, M.D., is Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
of Family Health Centers of Southwest Florida, Inc., and is responsible for the oversight
of all FHCSWF pediatricians, family practitioners, internal medicine physicians and all
mid-level providers. In this role he provides clinical leadership and supervision to all
of our Children’s services and Family Practice.
Dr. Quiñonez received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1987 and a Medical Degree
in 1992 from Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala City, Guatemala. He also did a
year of Pre-Medical studies at Fordham University in New York City, N.Y. He completed a
Pediatric Residency from the University of South Alabama in Mobile in 1995. He functioned
as Chief Resident of Pediatrics from 1995–1996. From 1996 to 1998, he did a Clinical
Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship at the Tulane University/Louisiana State University
combined fellowship program in New Orleans. He also obtained a Certificate of Business
Administration for Physicians from Auburn University in 2003.
From 1999–2005, Dr. Quiñonez served as Medical Director of the
Children’s Medical Center of the University of South Alabama; from 2001–2005
he served as Chief of the Division of General Pediatrics for the Department of Pediatrics
of the same institution.
He also served there as a member of the Residency Training Committee for the Department
of Pediatrics and as a member of the Graduate Medical Education Committee for the University
of South Alabama College of Medicine. He has also been elected and served as president of
the Mobile, Alabama Pediatric Society. He has been serving as Medical Director of Pediatrics
of FHCSWF since July 2005.
He is Board Certified and re-certified in Pediatrics. He is a Fellow of the American
Academy of Pediatrics and a Member of the Community Health Committee and a Member of the
Infectious Diseases Society of America. He is a Member of the Scientific Advisory Council
and a Fellow of the Society for Clinical Pediatrics.
Dr. Quiñonez has received the Robert O. Harris III Award to the Outstanding
Pediatric Resident from the University of South Alabama in 1994 and has received the
Clinical Young Investigator Award from the Southern Society for Pediatric Research
in 1996.
He has been awarded research grants from the Gorgas Tropical Medicine Foundation and
from the Children’s Health Foundation and has also participated in several clinical
research projects with pharmaceutical companies.
In the past he has been on the board of speakers for Glaxo Smith-Kline. He has numerous
clinical publications in major pediatric journals and continues to be a reviewer for the
Clinical Pediatrics Journal.
Dr. Quiñonez is an avid sports fan, in particular of the game of baseball. He
has played Roy Hobbs Adult Baseball both in Mobile and Fort Myers for the last 6 years.
He also has great interest in Military History and Theology and enjoys reading on these
topics extensively.
Dr. Quiñonez and his wife, Claudia, have three children, José, Sofia and
Elena. Claudia is an architect.
