Dental General Practice Residency at Jesse Brown VA Medical Center

   The Jesse Brown VA Medical Center is a comprehensive health care system, drawing upon the diversity and strength of its staff and affiliates, to fulfill a fourfold mission:  Clinical Care, Education, Research, and Back-up to the Military. 

   The Jesse Brown VA Medical Center was created in 1996 with the integration of the VA Lakeside Medical Center and VA West Side Medical Center.  The Jesse Brown VA Medical Center provides care to over 65,000 veterans who reside in the City of Chicago and Cook County, Illinois, and in six counties in northwestern Indiana. 

   Located on the near west side of Chicago, the West Side Division is a 189 bed tertiary care facility whose primary service area includes Chicago and the surrounding suburban and “collar” counties in northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana – an area with an estimated 400,000 veterans.  The West Side Division treated 6250 inpatients in Fiscal Year 2001.  The West Side Division has approximately 1,050 employees.

   The West Side Division has one of the most active outpatient programs in VA with over 100 specialty clinics that accommodated almost 300,000 outpatient visits annually.  Outpatient programs include same day surgery, mental hygiene, dentistry, oral and maxillofacial surgery, day hospital, HIV, substance abuse, tuberculosis screening, post-traumatic stress disorder, diabetes prevention and management, foot screening and a memory disorder clinic.

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The Dental Residents below are identified as Dr. Amul Gandhi and Dr. Debra Gong  for the year 2006-2007.

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