Eric Skaar, Ph.D., MPH, is a professor in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Skaar earned his B.S. in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, his Ph.D. in Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis from Northwestern University and his MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Northwestern University.