Tara Vijayan, MD
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Tara Vijayan, MD

(she/her)
  • Infectious Diseases
Average rating: 5.0
| 40 ratings
 
CARE Center | 1399 Roxbury Drive, Suite 100, Los Angeles, CA 90035

About

Tara Vijayan completed medical school at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2007, where she started the school’s first and only literary magazine. She spent a gap year at Yale doing the Doris Duke Research Fellowship studying transitioning adolescents with perinatally acquired HIV to adult medicine before starting and completing her training in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the University of California, San Francisco. After fellowship, she spent a year and a half as a primary care doctor for patients with HIV in Oakland, California. She moved to UCLA in 2015 where she has had formal roles teaching 1st and 2nd  year medical students microbiology and infectious diseases. She currently serves as the Medical Director of Adult Antimicrobial Stewardship, Medical Director of the CARE Clinic, and an Associate Program Director for the UCLA Multicampus Infectious Disease Fellowship. Additionally, she serves as a co-editor of the State-of-the-Art Reviews in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Her academic passions remain health equity, clinical decision making, narrative medicine and all things infectious diseases.

Languages

English

Education

Medical Board Certifications

Infectious Disease, American Board of Internal Medicine, 2012
Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine, 2010

Fellowship

Infectious Disease, UCSF Medical Center, 2012

Residency

Internal Medicine, UCSF Medical Center, 2010

Internship

Internal Medicine, UCSF Medical Center, 2008

Degree

MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Yeshiva University, 2007

Recognitions

  • LGBTQ+ champion
  • Golden Apple Award, DGSOM Class of 2023
  • Top Doctors, Los Angeles Magazine, 2021
  • Golden Apple Award, DGSOM Class of 2021
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Hospital Affiliations

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center

Research

Interests

  • Tuberculosis
  • HIV
  • Cryptococcal Disease
  • Implementation Science

Insurance

  • Aetna
  • Anthem Blue Cross
  • Blue Shield of California
  • Centivo
  • Cigna
  • First Health
  • Health Net of California
  • Interplan (part of HealthSmart)
  • L.A. Care
  • Medicare Advantage
  • MultiPlan
  • UFCM Health System
  • Prime Health Services
  • Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
  • TRICARE
  • UnitedHealthcare

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Recognitions

  • Golden Apple Award, DGSOM Class of 2023
  • Top Doctors, Los Angeles Magazine, 2021
  • Golden Apple Award, DGSOM Class of 2021
  • Golden Apple Award, Class of 2020
  • Top Doctors, Los Angeles Magazine, 2020