Dan Uslan, MD

Dan Uslan, MD

Travel Medicine| Infectious Diseases
Accepting new patients
Primary Location
Westwood Specialty Care
200 Medical Plaza
Suite 365
Los Angeles, California 90095
Phone
Fax
310-206-1609

About

Academic/Professional Titles

  • Chief Infection Prevention Officer, UCLA Health
  • Clinical Professor, Infectious Diseases

Dr. Daniel Z. Uslan serves as Chief Infection Prevention Officer for UCLA Health. His research is on infection prevention, antibiotic use, medical device infections including pacemaker infections, and epidemiology of infections. Dr. Uslan's clinical interests include Clostridioides difficile (C diff) including fecal transplant, bloodstream infections, surgical infections, endocarditis and other cardiovascular infections.

Dr. Uslan received his medical degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He also earned an MS in Biotechnology from Northwestern University and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Business. Dr. Uslan completed his internship, residency, and Infectious Diseases fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He is Board Certified in Infectious Diseases by the American Board of Internal Medicine and has numerous presentations and publications to his credit. Dr. Uslan was elected a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

Languages

English

Education

Medical Board Certification

Infectious Disease, American Board of Internal Medicine, 2007

Fellowship

Infectious Disease, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, 2006

Residency

Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, 2004

Internship

Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, 2002

Degrees

MBA, UCLA, 2016
MD, Keck School of Medicine of USC, 2001

Recognitions

Hospital Affiliations

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center

Areas of Focus

Pulmonary coccidioidomycosis
Staphylococcus infections
Q fever
Fever of unknown origin
Clostridium difficile
Bacterial endocarditis

Videos

Treatment Paradigms for Resistant H. Pylori

Research

Interests

  • Novel infection control strategies including environmental approaches
  • Cardiac and endovascular infections
  • Medical device infections
  • C diff and fecal transplant
  • Surgical infections

Recognitions

  • Top Doctors, Los Angeles Magazine, 2021, 2023