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    Westyn Branch-Elliman, MD, MMSc

        Investigator / Physician Scientist, CHOIR
        
        Attending Physician, Infectious Diseases, VA Boston Healthcare System

        Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

        Westyn.Branch-Elliman@va.gov

EDUCATION

  • BA, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 
  • MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
  • MMSc, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
  • Internship and Residency, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
  • Fellow, Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
  • Fellow, Infection Control / Healthcare Epidemiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Prevention of healthcare-associated infections
  • Epidemiology
  • Utilization and cost of healthcare, value of prevention programs
  • Surveillance and clinical informatics

AWARDS AND HONORS

  • VISN-1 Career Development Award, 2016-2018
  • Infectious Diseases Soceity for America Investigator Award, 2015
  • Jonathan Freeman Scholarship, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology in America, 2013
  • First Place, Harvard Medical School Residents and Fellows Research Competition, 2012

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