Todd and Randy Katz have donated $2 million dollars to UCLA to establish the Ronald A. Katz Center for Collaborative Military Medicine as a way to honor their father’s passion. Ronald A. Katz (pictured left) had spearheaded the founding of UCLA's Operation Mend — a partnership among Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas and the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System to help U.S. military personnel wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The new Katz Center, which will reside within the UCLA Health System and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, will give America's wounded warriors and the military an institution dedicated to solving their specific medical issues. It will focus on enhancing treatment protocols for craniofacial reconstruction, burn repair, limb reconstruction, hand and face transplantation, traumatic brain injury and other critical areas prioritized by the military.
By serving as a nexus for UCLA's many research projects and services designed to help America's servicemen and servicewomen, the center will help foster collaborations and partnerships both within the university and between UCLA and the military to increase our nation's ability to care for wounded veterans.
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