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Chief of Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Immunizations
Public Health - Seattle & King County
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Eric J. Chow, MD, MS, MPH, FACP, FAAP is the Chief of Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Immunization for Public Health – Seattle & King County and is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Divisions of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology. Dr. Chow received his MD and MPH from Eastern Virginia Medical School. He completed his residency training in combined internal medicine and pediatrics at Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital where he also completed a pediatric chief residency. From 2018-2020, he was an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer within the Influenza Division where he worked on division level priorities and on field investigations including influenza, measles, Ebola and SARS-CoV-2. He supported Public Health – Seattle & King County’s response to the long-term care facility COVID-19 outbreak and helped characterize the initial cases of multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C_ in the United States. He completed an adult infectious disease fellowship at University of Washington where he also served as chief fellow. His peer reviewed publications and research interests focus on community respiratory virus epidemiology, extra-pulmonary manifestations of respiratory viruses and emerging infectious diseases.