Patient Voices: HIV & Treatment in Asia

Faculty

Tanyaporn Wansom, MD, PhD

Senior Infectious Diseases Consultant
Chayun Consulting
Bangkok, Thailand

Ellen Eaton, MD, MSPH, FIDSA

Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Ellen Eaton, MD, MSPH is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).A native of Dothan, Alabama, she earned her BS in Chemistry at Vanderbilt University and attended medical school at UAB. She completed her Internal Medicine residency at Stanford Hospital and Clinics where she served as a Chief Internal Medicine Resident in 2011 before returning to UAB for her Infectious Diseases Fellowship.

Dr. Eaton’s patient care and research center on the infectious consequences of addiction. She is the Director of the UAB1917 Clinic Opioid Treatment Clinic. Her current research tests interventions to prevent and treat infections in individuals with substance use and mental illness. In 2022, Ellen was selected as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine by the National Academy of Medicine.