UCLA/VA Multicampus PM&R Residency Program

UCLA/VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System Multicampus PM&R Residency Program is an ACGME-accredited residency program in physical medicine and rehabilitation based in Los Angeles, California. [ [http://www.ama-assn.org/vapp/freida/pgm/0,1238,3400521007,00.html information from FREIDA] ] [ [http://www.gla.med.va.gov/pmrinet/default.htm Main website] ] With four clinical fellows in pain medicine and 26 PM&R residents enrolled in the program, it is one of the largest PM&R residency programs in the West Coast and one of a handful of PM&R programs in the U.S. to have its own pain medicine fellowship program.

History

The program started in 1955. [ [http://www.gla.med.va.gov/pmrinet Website for VA/UCLA PM&R Residency Program Website accessed 18 Jan 2007] ] The program has trained over 200 physiatrists thus far. As with other VA-affiliated programs, UCLA-VA Program grew in part due to increasing federal funding for research and development in the field of prosthetics and rehabilitation in the 1950s and 1960s. The Vocational Rehabilitation Administration (later Social and Rehabilitation Service) provided grants to support training programs for physiatrists and emerging PM&R departments. Research, and to lesser extent technology, was an important part of these training objectives. [ [http://www.vard.org/jour/02/39/6/sup/reswick.html From JRRD accessed 18 Jan 2007] ] The UCLA-VA Multicampus Program grew in size in the 1970s and 1980s with the addition of residents from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center.

Rotating Hospitals

Residents in PM&R care for patients in the following hospitals:

*UCLA Medical Center
* [http://www.losangeles.va.gov/ VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System]
*Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
*Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center
*Children's Hospital Los Angeles
* [http://www.long-beach.med.va.gov/ Long Beach VA Medical Center]

Faculty

The current faculty includes [ [http://www.gla.med.va.gov/pmrinet/faculty.htm Faculty list accessed 18 Jan 2007] ]

* D. Aragaki (UCLA and VA)
* Z. Ayyoub (Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center)
* J. Baumgarten (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
* S. Chun (Long Beach VA)
* S. Chrissian (UCLA and VA)
* B. Darvish (VA)
* A. Dumas (VA)
* G. Etnyre (UCLA and VA)
* D. Fish (UCLA and VA)
* S. Kilmann (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
* H. Kim (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and VA)
* A. Meyer (UCLA and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
* A. Miranda (UCLA and VA)
* A. Nastasi (UCLA and VA)
* S. Pangarkar (UCLA and VA)
* K. Paresa (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
* Q. Pham (UCLA and VA)
* S. Rao (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
* R. Riggs (UCLA and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
* M. Scott (Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center and UCLA)
* A. Scremin (UCLA and VA)
* A. Wallbom (UCLA and VA)
* M. Zirovich (VA)

Chief Residents

Notable Alumni

* [http://www.armendumas.com Armen Dumas] (1981) – private practice in the San Fernando Valley and VA staff
* [http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/pmr/karrig.cfm D. Casey Kerrigan] (1991) – Chair, Department of PM&R, University of Virginia
* Quynh Pham (1996) – Current Program Director of PM&R Residency Program and PM&R Pain Fellowship Program at UCLA
* A. M. Erika Scremin – Chief, Department of PM&R, [http://www.greaterla.va.gov/ VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System]
* Neal K. Sheade – Chief Emeritus of PM&R Department at Kaiser Los Angeles Medical Center

Program Directors

* D. Aragaki (Associate Program Director, PM&R Residency Program)
* D. Fish (Associate Program Director, Pain Medicine Fellowship)
* Q. G. Pham (Program Director, PM&R Residency and Pain Medicine Fellowship)
* A. M. E. Scremin (Chief of Service)

Pain Medicine Fellowship Program

The pain medicine clinical fellowship program was started in 2001.

Pain Fellows

elected Research Publications

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References

ee also

*PM&R Residency Programs in the United States

External links

* [http://www.losangeles.va.gov/internships/pmr/index.asp VAGLAHS Dept of PM&R]
* [http://www.losangeles.va.gov/internships/pmr/index.asp Website for VA/UCLA PM&R Residency]
* [http://www.spinecenter.ucla.edu/Programs/PMR/Pain_Medicine_Fellowship.asp Pain Medicine Fellowship Program]