Topic
Use of Antimicrobials at the End of Life
Zoom
Speakers
Assistant Professor of Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Hospice and Palliative Medicine Specialist
UCLA Health, Santa Monica CA
Presentation topic based on:
“State-of-the-Art Review: Use of Antimicrobials at the End of Life” Daniel Karlin, Christine Pham, Daisuke Furukawa, Ishminder Kaur, Emily Martin, Olivia Kates, Tara Vijayan, State-of-the-Art Review: Use of Antimicrobials at the End of Life, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 78, Issue 3, 15 March 2024, Pages e27–e36, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciad735
About Dr. Vijayan
Tara Vijayan, MD 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, Dr. Vijayan 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 first and second year medical students the wonderful world of microbiology and infectious diseases and had earned several teaching awards. From 2019-2026, she also served as the Medical Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship for the health system.
Dr. Vijayan currently serves as 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. When she is not working, she hangs out in her sleepy little beach town with her husband who is a primary care doctor, their two kids and their pup “Turtle.”
About Dr. Karlin
Daniel Karlin, MD attended the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, where he spent a year studying the interaction of mental health and tuberculosis in Lima, Peru, through the Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholarship. He continued at UCLA in the combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency, heading toward Global Health until he found his calling in Palliative Care. After a fellowship at the UCSD/Scripps program, he returned to UCLA in 2017.
Dr. Karlin has worked on advancing communication around serious illness, developing curricula from the medical school level onward, including fellows and faculty. His efforts center on managing conflicting agendas between medical teams and patients, using communication skills to advocate for more equitable care, and growing the intersection of Palliative Care with other specialties.
He currently serves as the Medical Director of Palliative Care for the Motion Picture Television Fund and the Chair of the From the Heart Fund at UCLA. He lives in Agoura Hills with his partner, two daughters, and (yes, they came with these names) Dodger Dog and Runty Runt.