Dr Richard Quinton is an Endocrinologist at the Northern Region Gender Dysphoria Service in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and an honorary Reader in Reproductive Endocrinology at Imperial College London. 

After graduating from Cambridge University, he trained in Internal Medicine at St Bart’s in London and Erasmus University Hospital in Rotterdam, followed by higher training in general and reproductive Endocrinology at UCL Hospitals in London.

He has been active in research for over 30 years, with a particular interest in Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism, and has published >200 articles in scientific journals. In 2000, he was awarded the Ralph Noble Prize by Cambridge University for his MD thesis on Kallmann syndrome and, in 2023, received the Outstanding Clinical Practitioner award from the Society for Endocrinology.

He co-led the Society for Endocrinology guidelines group for the management of male hypogonadism (published in 2022) and female hypogonadism (in review 2024); was Vice Chair of the EU-COST consortium on GnRH deficiency and participated in the NIHR-funded TestES consortium, which recently returned data in 2023 that firmly underpinned the cardiovascular safety of testosterone treatment in men.