Greater Los Angeles Veterans Research and Education Foundation (GLAVREF) supports research focused on health issues with direct relevance to Veterans. In support of these efforts, GLAVREF provides various services to investigators and project personnel through grants and contracts administration, human resources management, and technical support for grant submissions. GLAVREF also supports initiatives and education activities for VA clinicians and investigators.
Dr. Matthew Rettig and Dr. Stephanie Taylor, two prominent local researchers and GLAVREF Board members, are conducting groundbreaking research at VA Greater Los Angeles to benefit Veterans in the Los Angeles community and across the United States. Dr. Taylor is a health services researcher and sociomedical scientist at Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, University of California Los Angeles, RAND, and Columbia University. She directs the VA’s national Complementary and Integrative Health Evaluation Center, which conducts large-scale research studies on the effectiveness and implementation of novel non-pharmacologic “Whole Health” therapies such as meditation, acupuncture, and yoga.
Dr. Rettig is the Chief of Hematology-Oncology at the VA Medical Center in Greater Los Angeles and is a Professor of Medicine and Urology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the UCLA. He is also the national Co-Director of the VA Precision Oncology Program for Cancer of the Prostate (POPCaP), which aims to select treatments for advanced prostate cancer patients based on the genetic profile of their cancer. Dr. Rettig focuses on managing genitourinary malignancies, with a clinical emphasis on advanced prostate cancer and research emphasis on identifying biochemical targets for therapeutic translation in castration-resistant prostate cancer.
