Samantha Eells is a Faculty member of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, and a Doctoral candidate in the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA.  She previously earned a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, an affilate of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.  Her research focuses on clinical epidemiology in healthcare-associated infections due to public health pathogens, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).  She and her colleagues also study the relationship between normal colonization of the body by MRSA, and infections caused by these bacteria. She was awarded a Seed Grant from the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA to study skin and soft-tissue infection recurrence rates in a California emergency department. 

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