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Elizabeth D Mellins
Professor - University Medical Line, Pediatrics - Human Gene Therapy
Member, Bio-X
Member, Maternal & Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI)
Member, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Center for IBD and Celiac Disease
Member, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Postdoctoral fellow, University of Washington, Immunology (1988)
Ped. Rheumatology fellow, University of Washington, Pediatric Rheumatology (1984)
Pediatric Resident, University of Colorado University of Washington, Pediatrics (1981)
M.D., Harvard Medical School, Medicine (1978)
Affiliation:
Dr. Elizabeth Mellins graduated from Cornell University with degree in political science, did a post-bac year at MIT and received her MD from Harvard Medical School. She trained in Pediatrics at the University of Colorado and in Pediatric Rheumatology at the University of Washington. She began to focus on research in immunology and immunogenetics during her postdoctoral work at the University of Washington with Dr. Donald Pious. She had her first independent laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania and then moved to Stanford, where she is now a professor of Pediatrics and a member of the Interdisciplinary Program in Immunology. She was a member of the Cellular and Molecular Immunology NIH study section for 9 years (2 terms) and is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Association of Immunologists. She was also a founder and first chairperson of the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance.