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. 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. 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. 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
 * VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
 * Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
 * Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center
 * Children's Hospital Los Angeles
 * Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital
 * Long Beach VA Medical Center

Faculty
The current faculty includes


 * D. Aragaki (UCLA and VA)
 * J. Baumgarten (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
 * S. Chrissian (UCLA and VA)
 * B. Darvish (UCLA and VA)
 * A. Dumas (VA)
 * G. Etnyre (UCLA and VA)
 * D. Fish (UCLA and VA)
 * S. Kilmann (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
 * H. Kim (Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center and VA)
 * A. Meyer (UCLA and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
 * A. Miranda (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)

Notable Alumni

 * Armen Dumas (1981) – private practice in the San Fernando Valley and VA staff
 * 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, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
 * Neal K. Sheade – Chief Emeritus of PM&R Department at Kaiser Los Angeles Medical Center

Program Directors

 * Quynh Pham
 * A. M. Erika Scremin

Pain Medicine Fellowship Program
The pain medicine clinical fellowship program was started in 2001.

Selected Research Publications