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Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which CSMC resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education. Please explore our web site and learn why we are proud to be part of this unique and prestigious institution.
Research
The Burns and Allen Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai was created to enable biomedical researchers uncover the genetic, molecular and immunological mechanisms that underlie disease and to investigate promising new avenues of therapy. The institute's researchers produce a steady flow of new findings, many of which have advanced the treatment of cancer, heart disease, neurological and metabolic disorders, and many other conditions.
As a major community medical center and tertiary referral center, Cedars-Sinai offers an environment of unparalleled opportunity for laboratory to bedside research studies. Many of our medical breakthroughs have transformed medical practice worldwide. The Burns and Allen Research Institute includes state of the art laboratories, core facilities, and technology in an established culture of scientific accomplishment.
Education
Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competitive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.
There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.
