Jeffrey Duchin, MD, FIDSA, a member of the board of directors for the Infectious Diseases Society of America (which produces this blog), is Seattle & King County health officer for Public Health. He trained as a medical epidemiologist in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Epidemic Intelligence Service, after which he completed the CDC's Preventive Medicine Residency program. He worked for the CDC in the National Center for Infectious Diseases, the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, and the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. Jeff also co-chairs the King County Heroin and Opiate Addiction Task Force formed to confront the region's growing heroin and opioid epidemic.