VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System

    VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System (700 beds) has long been known for its basic and clinical research programs in gastroenterology. GI faculty actively work at CURE: Digestive Disease Research Center, a research center on the VA grounds engaged in study of ulcer diseases, gastrointestinal peptides, and neuroenteric controls of GI secretion and motility. Since the late 1980's, our GI fellowship has been closely tied to the fellowship program at the UCLA-Center for Health Sciences (a mile northeast of the VA). GI fellows rotate for clinical training between these two hospitals throughout their fellowship. They receive training in hemostasis from a renowned team of experts who work at both hospitals; and the West Los Angeles VA hosts continuity clinics for fellows from both hospitals. Journal clubs, special conferences in GI radiology and GI pathology, and lectures from visiting professors are frequent at CHS for GI fellows from both hospitals; and these sessions compliment weekly medical-surgical and pathology review conferences at the VA. In addition, fellows participate in the basic science preceptorial sessions of the UCLA Affiliated GI Program. The VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System is a busy medical center, offering a wide experience in all types of acute and chronic GI disease. Our fellows evaluate and treat these patients with close supervision and mentoring by an accomplished faculty We have an excellent training program in GI endoscopy. After completing clinical training in their first two years at the VA, many of fellows have also gone on to further academic training in research at CURE or in basic or health services research at UCLA.

NIH Gastroenterology Training Grant