Education

BA Stanford University, 2007
BS Stanford University, 2007
MPH Eastern Virginia Medical School, 2010
MD Eastern Virginia Medical School, 2013

Contact

206-296-4774
erchow@kingcounty.gov

Bio

BA Stanford University, 2007 BS Stanford University, 2007, MS Stanford University, 2008, MPH Eastern Virginia Medical School, 2010 MD Eastern Virginia Medical School, 2013 Eric J. Chow, MD, MS, MPH (he/him) is the Chief of Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Immunization within the Prevention Division for Public Health – Seattle & King County, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of 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 in the United States. He completed an adult infectious disease fellowship at University of Washington where he was also 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.