Westyn Branch-Elliman, MD

Dr. Westyn Branch-Elliman, MD, MMSc, FSHEA, FIDSA is Chief, Section of Infectious Diseases at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and a Professor of Medicine in the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. Dr. Branch-Elliman completed her medical degree at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and residency in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. She then completed an infectious diseases and infection control fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, a Teaching Hospital of Harvard Medical School. During her fellowship training, Dr. Branch-Elliman participated in the Harvard Scholars in Clinical Sciences Program, earning a Master’s degree from Harvard Medical School in clinical research. 

After completing medical training, she served as the Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship at Eastern Colorado Healthcare System. In her current role, she is a physician scientist with expertise in dissemination and implementation science, pragmatic and hybrid clinical trials, epidemiology, policy evaluation, leveraging VA databases to support automated surveillance activities, and rapid response research to support learning healthcare systems initiatives that translate big data into bedside impact. She is also an Associate Editor at Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology in America.