"Gen. Chiarelli has been passionate about the responsibility of caring for our servicemen and servicewomen," said Todd and Randy Katz. "He is a truly respected and distinguished leader with the ability to help this new center be as effective as possible at the highest levels of our military."
UCLA's dedication to veterans' issues, which dates back generations, includes a partnership with the U.S. Veterans Administration (now Veterans Affairs) that began at the end of World War II. Today, 400 UCLA faculty members and 350 medical students care for more than 3,000 veterans each year in nearly every medical discipline. In addition to programs like Operation Mend, UCLA is home to the Nathanson Family Resilience Center, which conducts research and provides support to military families facing deployment and reintegration, and the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans With Disabilities, which offers free training in small-business management for disabled veterans through UCLA's Anderson School of Management. In addition, the director of UCLA's Brain Injury Research Center, David Hovda, was recently honored by the U.S. Army for his breakthrough research, which has improved the diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain injuries on the battlefield.
"UCLA, as an institution, takes great pride in its support and clinical care for injured service members and veterans, along with its continuing research and innovation in the interdisciplinary areas of battlefield technology, health care, bioengineering and telecommunication," Ronald A. Katz said. The lessons learned through such services, he added, have universal application. "Military conflicts historically have presented unique challenges in medical care that have driven endeavors with lifesaving results for military patients and, ultimately, great progress in civilian medicine as well."
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