The Practice
Pediatric Pulmonology
The clinical life that runs beneath every mission — four decades spent inside the breath of children, from asthma to the rarest and most complicated airway.
Neumólogo Pediatra
A Lifetime in Children's Lungs
Alongside the missions and the textbooks, Dr. Ernesto Quiñones has spent his career as a pediatric pulmonologist — a specialist in the breathing of children. His training and affiliations reach from the Centre d'Asthmologie du Somail in France to Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, in the United States, and home again to Quito.
What follows is the shape of that practice: what he listens for in a consultation, the tools he reaches for, and the conditions he has spent a lifetime learning to read.
What a Visit Includes
A consultation with Dr. Quiñones is unhurried and thorough. Each visit is built around the same careful sequence.
Diagnostics at the Edge of the Field
Where it helps a child, the practice draws on advanced diagnostic tools.
The Conditions He Reads
Over four decades, certain conditions return again and again.
A Network of Care
In Quito, his reference centers are the Hospital Metropolitano de Quito and the Hospital de los Valles in Cumbayá.
For second opinions and the medical missions that have defined his life, he works with Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston — through Operation Airway and Careways — and with Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas.
Publications of International Impact
What He Has Written
A body of work spanning the first pediatric pulmonology textbook published in Ecuador to peer-reviewed research in international journals.
A Doctor You Can Reach
Dr. Quiñones remains a practicing pediatric pulmonologist in Quito. For a consultation, a second opinion, or simply to reach him directly: