Dr. Quel is Director of the Allergy, Asthma and Sinus Medical Center of Marina del Rey, California and associated with Santa Monica Hospital UCLA (Univ. of California Los Angeles), Marina del Rey Hospital and Brotman Hospital of Culver City.

As an active member of various allergy societies, he lectures as well as coordinates workshops and symposiums.  Dr. Quel is co-founder of the Hispanic American Allergy Asthma and Immunology Association and as its Executive Director has organized patient as well as physician education programs nationally and internationally for over 20 years.  In addition, he is an active member of WHO/GARD (World Health Organization).

He also supervises the allergy training of students from several universities.  As an active patient advocate, he has appeared in the State and National Capitols on legislative issues.  Appointed as a member of the National Minority Quality Forum, he collaborates with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services on health disparities.  Dr. Quel also serves on the Board of Directors and is Vice President of UNASMA (an International organization for the education of allergy and asthma), and a member of the SLAAI (Sociedad Lationamericano de Alergia, Asma e Imunologia).  He is a member of the California Allergy Association, Los Angeles Allergy Association, Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI),  Fellow of the American College of Allergy Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) working with joint sessions in Latin America.

He has received many awards including Distinguished Fellow of the ACAAI as well as honorary appointments to numerous foreign allergy societies.  Dr. Quel was the Director of the Allergy Department at Illinois Masonic Hospital in Chicago, Director of Allergy Research at Alpha Medical Laboratories in Illinois and Professor at the Chicago Medical School.  He also served as an appointed advisor to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Washington DC, to the White House and as a Governor appointee to the Board of Medical Quality Assurance, State of California.While Chair of the Aerobiology Committee of the AAAAI, he established a quality control system for pollen collection stations; he is a member of the Allergy Standardization Committee and is an appointed Liaison of the AAAAI.

Along with lecturing nationally and internationally, Dr. Quel has written various medical articles and co authorized several books including a 2008 edition on Aerobiology.

He is Board Certified by the American Board of Allergy and Immunology a conjoint Board of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Pediatrics.  Dr. Quel was trained pediatric and adult allergy-clinical immunology at several medical Universities: Ohio State University Hospital, Children’s Hospital in Ohio, University of Illinois and Presbyterian St. Luke’s Hospital as well as several Universities in South America including Argentina and Brazil. A Post-Doctoral degree in Allergy (awarded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) was obtained at  the University of California Los Angeles.

Together, we look forward to better serving our patients’ needs.