Biography

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 been fortunate to have formal roles teaching 1st and second year medical students the wonderful world of microbiology and infectious diseases. She currently also serves as the Medical Director of Adult Antimicrobial Stewardship, Medical Director of the CARE Clinic (serving patients with HIV) and an Associate Program Director for the UCLA Multicampus Infectious Disease Fellowship. Lastly, 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. She lives in what she calls a hamlet by the beach in Los Angeles with her husband who is a primary care doctor, her two kids and their rowdy pup.

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