Rachel Gorwitz, MD, MPH Medical Epidemiologist Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion,  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Dr. Rachel Gorwitz has been a medical epidemiologist with the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since 2004, where she serves as a subject matter expert on community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA). Dr. Gorwitz is the lead author of the CDC’s guidance for clinical management of MRSA in the community, and she has authored or co-authored numerous other publications on CA-MRSA. Dr. Gorwitz’s other research interests include healthcare-associated infections in newborns and children. She obtained a medical degree from Johns Hopkins University and an MPH in epidemiology from the University of Michigan, and completed residency training in pediatrics at Emory University. She is board-certified in pediatrics and preventive medicine. Prior to joining DHQP, Dr. Gorwitz was an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer in the Respiratory Disease Branch of CDC’s Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases and a CDC preventive medicine resident assigned to the Georgia Division of Public Health.