Natalie deQuillfeldt

Dr. deQuillfeldt is a fellow in Addiction Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. Originally from Queens, New York, she is the proud daughter of Guyanese immigrants. She completed her undergraduate education in Biology with a specialization in Neuroscience and a double minor in Classical Civilizations and South Asian Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. While working in a Neurobiology laboratory, she earned a Master's degree in Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Stony Brook University. She then moved to Tucson, Arizona for medical school at the University of Arizona before completing residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado, where she served as a chief medical resident. She has been recognized for her patient care and teaching accomplishments by being awarded the University of Colorado Division of Hospital Medicine Patient Experience Champion Award in 2024, winning the Teaching Competition at the Mountain West Region Society of General Internal Medicine regional meeting for her talk on Medical Abortion in 2023, and the Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award by the Gold Humanism Honor Society in 2022. She was also selected as a scholarship recipient to attend the Chief Resident Immersion Training (CRIT) Program in Addiction Medicine at Boston Medical Center funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse in 2024. She hopes to combine her love of primary care, reproductive health, and medical education in her future career as an Addiction Medicine specialist and clinician-educator.