Professional Summary
Eden Wells is currently the Associate Director for the Preventive Medicine Residency at UMSPH. She is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine. Her current activities involve curriculum development, teaching, and applied public health practice training within the preventive medicine program; Dr. Wells also teaches graduate-level public health practice and applied epidemiology courses as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology. From 1992-2002, she served ten years with the Indian Health Service, USPHS. Dr. Wells was recently with the Bureau of Epidemiology, Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH), serving as a medical consultant to the Bureau and as a medical epidemiologist. MDCH activities included investigation of, and response to, public health incidents and outbreaks, and preparedness planning for potential bioterrorism and pandemic influenza events in Michigan. Dr. Wells organized and facilitated the Michigan Pandemic Influenza Coordinating Committee, comprised of Michigan's state agency pandemic planners. She assisted the development of Michigan's State Pandemic Influenza Operational Plan utilized during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. She also served as a medical consultant to the new MDCH Surveillance for Healthcare -Associated and Resistant Pathogens Unit in the Communicable Diseases Division.
Courses Taught
EPID512: BIOLOGIC BASIS OF DISEASE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGISTS
EPID650: Principles and Practice of Preventive Medicine
EPID651: Epidemiology and Public Health Management of Disasters
EPID785: Public Health Surveillance
HMP623: Principles and Practice of Preventive Medicine
Epid 503 Epid 607 Epid 650
Education
M.P.H., Public Health, University of Michigan, 2003
Medical Degree, Ohio State University College of Medicine, 1989
B.A., University of California, San Diego, 1985
Certified, Board of Internal Medicine 1993 Certified, Board of Preventive Medicine, 2004
Research Interests & Projects
Dr. Wells’ research interests are in the integration of clinical and public health practice, emergency preparedness, applied epidemiology, disaster epidemiology, emerging public health threats, and Preventive Medicine education.
Selected Publications
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Wells E., Cinti S., Clark T., Rudrik J., Boulton M.L. (May, 2011). Melioidosis: Reactivation of latent disease case presentation and review Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, 3, 161-166.
Sharangpani R., Boulton K., Wells E., Kim C. (May, 2011). Attitudes and behaviors of international air travelers toward pandemic influenza Journal of Travel Medicine, 18 (3), 203208.
Wells, E.V., Blostein, J., Kim, C., Potter, R., Boulton, M.L. (2010). A measles cluster in Michigan: challenges for measles diagnosis in adults, case series and review. Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, 18 (1), 37-40..
Jain, S., Kamimoto, L., Bramley, A.M.,... Wells, E.V., et al. (2009). Hospitalized patients with 2009 H1N1 influenza in the United States, April-June 2009 New England Journal of Medicine, 361(20), 1935-44.
Castrodale, L., McLaughlin, J., Imholte, S., Komatsu, K., Wells, E., et al. (2009). Deaths related to 2009 Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) among American Indian/Alaska Natives --- 12 States Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 58(48), 1341-1344.
Finks, J., Wells, E., Dyke, T., Husain, N., Plizga, L., Heddurshtti, R., et al. (2009). Vancomycin- resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Michigan, USA 2007. Emerging Infectious Disease, 15(6), 943-945.
Napolitano M, Park PK, Sihler KC ... Wells E, et al. (2009). Intensive-Care Patients With Severe Novel Influenza A (H1N1) Virus Infection --- Michigan June 2009 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 58, 1-4.
Professional Affiliations
Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
American Public Health Association
Michigan Public Health Association
Michigan Infectious Disease Society
American College of Preventive Medicine
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