Ellen Eaton, MD, MSPH

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. Her current research tests interventions to prevent and treat HIV in individuals with substance use. She is the Founder and Director of the UAB 1917 Clinic Opioid Treatment Clinic. She served numerous public health roles in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic including the Branch Director for Special Populations on the Jefferson County Department of Public Health COVID Incident Command and Infectious Diseases consultant to the Mayor of Birmingham as part of his COVID response, #BHMStrong.