Assistant Clinical Professor
UCLA
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Omer Eugene Beaird, MD (Assistant Clinical Professor, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine) is an infectious diseases physician who practices at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center. His clinical interests include infections in immunocompromised patients, in particular solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients as well as interest in endemic and opportunistic fungal infections, respiratory viral infections, donor transmitted infections and diagnostic testing in this population. He is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases.
Dr. Beaird received his medical degree from Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. He then completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Michigan School of Medicine and his infectious disease fellowship at UCLA. During residency and fellowship he participated in clinical research involving community respiratory viruses and endemic fungal infections and as a faculty member at UCLA is involved clinical research on topics including: coccidioidomycosis, aspergillosis, Chagas disease, COVID-19 and multi-drug resistant bacterial infections.