Research at VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System

The VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System boasts an award-winning research and development program with 100-plus investigators involved in more than 260 projects. This research spans several avenues of science, from Alzheimers disease to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and schizophrenia. VA Pittsburgh is also home to four of the country's 15 VA National Centers of Excellence and is building a state-of-the-art research center, slated for completion in 2012. See http://www.pittsburgh.va.gov/Research.asp for the Section 508 compliant version of this video.

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• research
• development
• science
• Alzheimers disease
• post traumatic stress disorder
• PTSD
• schizophrenia
• cardiac disorders
• National Centers of Excellence
• biomechanics
• transfer techniques
• robot
• roboticized wheelchair
• manipulator arms
• extremity
• impairments
• myeloma bone disease