The Legacy of Dr. Ernesto Quiñones
A Life Dedicated to Children
Pediatric Intensivist · Pulmonologist · Humanitarian · Author · Teacher · Medical Missionary
For more than four decades, Dr. Ernesto Quiñones has devoted his life to healing children, advancing medicine, educating physicians and bringing hope to underserved communities throughout the world.
An Introduction
Ernesto Quiñones
De La Torre, MD
Born in Ecuador and trained across three continents — in Barcelona, in Montpellier, and at the Children's Hospital of Columbus, Ohio — he returned home to build a life in pediatric critical care and pulmonology, and to carry it far beyond the walls of any hospital.
He has led Operation Airway alongside Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, directed more than fifty medical brigades across the Andes, the Amazon and the Ecuadorian coast, and carried that same work to Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Zambia. Along the way he wrote the textbooks a generation of pediatricians learned from.
This is not a résumé. It is a legacy.
The Archive
The Chapters of a Life
A living documentary, unfolding one chapter at a time. Each will open into its own immersive story.
A Humanitarian — and a Doctor You Can Reach
Beyond the missions and the textbooks, Dr. Quiñones remains a practicing pediatric pulmonologist in Quito. For consultations, second opinions, or to reach him directly: