Dr. Suárez-Quian’s teaching expertise is in clinical gross anatomy and he has served as gross anatomy discipline director of the first-year medical school curriculum for 20 years. He was a founding member and co-director of the Georgetown Medical Center Mini Medical School Program for over 25 years. He has received numerous teaching awards, including the Golden Apple and the Geza Illes Award in Gross Anatomy, and the Kaiser-Permanente Teaching Award granted by his faculty peers. In May 2008, Dr. Suárez-Quian was an early inductee into the MAGIS Society of Master Teachers, the highest award Georgetown bestows on a faculty member at the Medical School. He is the author of the Online Guided Gross Anatomy Dissector (Oxford University Press, 2014), an innovative, online tutorial to teach gross anatomy to medical and allied health students. He became co-author of The Clinical Anatomy of the Cranial Nerves, by J.A. Vilensky, W.M. Robertson and C.A. Suárez-Quian (Wiley, 2015). He published the eight-book series of All-in-One Anatomy Exam Review: Image-Based Questions and Answers with his co-author, Dr. Vilensky. He is also the co-author of Functional Anatomy For Occupational Therapy (Books of Discovery Press, 2022), now in over 140 programs nationwide.

Dr. Suárez-Quian served as one of 15 national judges for the annual Regeneron Science Competition (formerly Intel) that awards over 1.5 million in scholarships to high school seniors, now in its 78th year.