After her medical training at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University, Dr. Melanie Watts honed her Epidemiology chops at the CDC with a research fellowship working in the Division of Zoonoses, gaining some Rabies and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever expertise.  She went on to complete residency at Alameda County Medical Center Highland Hospital after which she joined the Faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UCSF.   Over the past five years at UCSF, she has had the delightful opportunity to not only teach, but also learn an immense amount from the outstanding Emergency Medicine trainees there. She has enjoyed serving on the QI Committee for the UCSF Emergency Department as well as in mentorship programs for both residents and medical students.  Her main teaching interest is in Procedural Skill teaching and she has served as a course instructor at ACEP and High Risk Emergency Medicine.  Her primary academic interests are in Global Health and expanding Emergency Care in regions where it is currently limited as well as Infectious Diseases and disaster relief medicine.

This fall, Dr. Watts has segued her love of teaching into doing global health work full time.  At the end of 2017, she completed her Tropical Medicine Diploma Training in London at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.  She has just moved her family to Bhutan where she will be teaching Emergency Medicine at the National Referral Hospital and hopefully helping to get the first Emergency Medicine residency program there off the ground.