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UCLA-VA Multi-campus PM&R Residency Program is an ACGME-accredited residency program in physical medicine and rehabilitation based in Los Angeles, California. 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 on the West Coast and one of a handful of PM&R-based programs in the U.S. to house its own pain medicine fellowship program.



History
The program started in 1955. The program has trained over 300 physiatrists thus far. As with other VA-affiliated programs, UCLA-VA Multicampus 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 technology were important part of these training objectives.

West Los Angeles VA Medical Center opened in 1977 and the PM&R Department established an immediate presence, caring for patients who returned from the recent conflicts in Southeast Asia. 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:


 * Children's Hospital Los Angeles
 * Long Beach VA Medical Center
 * Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center
 * UCLA Medical Center
 * VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
 * California Rehabilitation Institute

Faculty


The current faculty includes

UCLA
 * D. E. Fish, MD MPH
 * J. P. Prager, MD MS
 * J. Jung, MD
 * A. S. Chen, MD

West Los Angeles VA Medical Center
 * B. Amrami, MD (Addiction Medicine - Psychiatry)
 * D. Aragaki, MD (Director, PM&R Residency Program)
 * A. Basu, MD (Associate Chief of Staff, West Los Angeles VA Medical Center
 * E. Ben-Ozer, MD
 * M. Chang, MD (Pain Medicine - Neurology)
 * B. Darvish, MD
 * B. C. Eapen, MD (Chief of Service)
 * R. Galbraith, MD
 * S. Gohari, MD (Director, Polytrauma Service)
 * H. S. Kim, MD (Director, Medical Student Clerkship)
 * C. F. Kunkel, MD (Associate Chief of Service)
 * R. Mahrou, MD (Pain Medicine-Anesthesiology)
 * L. S. Miller, MD
 * A. Miranda, MD (Director, Amputee and Prosthetics Service)
 * N. Kerendian, DO
 * A. Nastasi, MD (Chief, Spinal Cord Injury Service)
 * D. Opava-Rutter, MD
 * R. Oshiro, MD
 * R. Ovsiowitz, MD
 * E. Pang, DO
 * S. Pangarkar, MD (Director, Inpatient Pain Service)
 * Q. G. Pham, MD (Pain Medicine Fellowship Program Director)
 * A. Rafizad, MD (Pain Medicine - Anesthesiology)
 * G. Rudd-Barnard, MD
 * M. Saber, MD
 * A. M. E. Scremin, MD (Chief of Service Emeritus)
 * M. Tran, MD
 * W. Van Vort, MD (Pain Medicine - Psychiatry)
 * A. Wallbom, MD MS
 * M. Zappaterra, MD PhD
 * M. D. Zirovich, MD (Chief of Research)

Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center
 * Z. A. Ayyoub, MD
 * M. Scott, MD

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
 * C. Mathis, MD
 * A. Meyer, MD
 * M. Nasmyth, MD
 * R. Riggs, MD

Long Beach VA
 * L. Chen, DO
 * S. Chun, MD

Children's Hospital Los Angeles
 * K. Craig, DO

California Rehabilitation Institute
 * D. Alexander, MD
 * J. Baumgarten, MD
 * J. Bryson, MD
 * C. Boudakian, DO
 * K. Hsin, MD
 * M. Nasmyth, MD
 * S. Rao, DO
 * M. Su, MD
 * D. Turk, MD
 * D. Vairavamurthy, MD

Program directors

 * D. Aragaki, MD (Program Director, PM&R Residency Program)
 * D. E. Fish, MD MPH (Associate Program Director, Pain Medicine Fellowship)
 * Q. G. Pham, MD (Program Director, Pain Medicine Fellowship)

Pain medicine fellowship program
The pain medicine clinical fellowship program started in 2001.