Dan Uslan, MD

Dan Uslan, MD, MBA, FIDSA, FSHEA, is Chief Infection Prevention Officer for UCLA Health and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. As an infectious diseases physician and healthcare epidemiologist, he has dedicated his career to preventing healthcare-associated infections and advancing safer systems of care. 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. Dr. Uslan is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

Over the past two decades, Dr. Uslan has led multidisciplinary efforts spanning antimicrobial stewardship, infection prevention, outbreak response, and healthcare epidemiology. As an active member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, Dr. Uslan contributes to professional dialogue on HAI surveillance reform, antimicrobial stewardship, and the intersection of healthcare facility design and infection prevention. His expertise spans NHSN surveillance methodology, hospital-acquired infection prevention, and the translation of epidemiologic findings into practical protocols for healthcare facilities. His work has increasingly focused on one of the most challenging—and often overlooked—sources of healthcare-associated infections: hospital water systems. Dr. Uslan has helped advance understanding of how plumbing infrastructure, biofilms, and sink environments contribute to pathogen transmission, and how hospitals can redesign systems to better protect vulnerable patients. He is pioneering approaches that position water system safety at the center of modern infection prevention strategy, moving beyond reactive outbreak response to proactive facility design and management.