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Bernard Glueck, Sr.

After retiring in 1947, Glueck continued to work for the Veterans Administration, the University of North Carolina, and John Umstead Hospital in Butner, North Carolina.

Clyde L. Garrett

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Technical assistant, Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C., and Dallas, Texas from 1949 to 1950.

Edwin S. Shneidman

As an intern, he studied schizophrenia, then thought to be environmentally caused, at the Veterans Administration hospital in Brentwood|.

Elliot Griffin Thomas

From 1954-59, Thomas worked as a pharmacist with the Veterans Administration in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he also studied part-time at Gannon College, majoring in Business Administration.

Gerald Domingue

Over the course of his thirty-nine-year career, Domingue received funding from the National Institutes of Health, Veterans Administration, and a variety of national and international research foundations; served on grant review committees of these agencies as well as consultant to various journal review boards.

Gustave Marinius Heiss

From 1947 to 1955 he worked as chief of vocational rehabilitation and education at the Veterans Administration.

Harry C. Solomon

He was widely sought as a consultant and advisor to the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Veterans Administration, the National Research Council, and during World War II, the Selective Service Board.

Knox Street Historic District

Just past Myrtle Avenue one block south of the district is the Samuel S. Stratton Veterans Administration hospital, part of a large complex of health-care facilities.

M*A*S*H Goes to Maine

Having left the Army, Hawkeye is established to be working for the Veterans Administration.

National Catholic Community Service

It was a member agency of the United Service Organization (USO) and the Veterans Administration's (VA) Voluntary Service National Advisory Committee and operated a VA Hospital Program with the assistance of a VA diocesan hospital committee.

Poni Adams

He later served as the last administrator for the Veterans Administration before the VA became a cabinet department during Ronald Reagan's presidential term.

Sexual orientation and the United States military

On July 19, 2013, Veterans Administration (VA) Secretary Eric Shinseki noted in a letter about the case that the statutory definitions of "spouse" and "surviving spouse" had yet to be invalidated by a court.

Solomon Carter Fuller

When the Veterans Administration opened the Tuskegee Veterans Administration Medical Center after World War I with an entirely black staff, Fuller was instrumental in recruiting and training black psychiatrists for key positions.

Theodore H. Blau

Dr. Blau earned his bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. degrees from Pennsylvania State University and completed his residency at the Veterans Administration hospital in Perry Point, Maryland.


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Betty Eisner

Eisner conducted psychotherapy research, first with Sidney Cohen at the Neuropsychiatric Hospital Veterans Administration Center in Los Angeles and, later, from her private practice in Los Angeles.

Chester A. Chesney

He served as assistant chief of special service, Veterans Administration, Hines, Illinois, in 1946 and 1947.

Deepak Pandya

He moved to Boston in 1966 and joined the Aphasia Research Center at the Boston Veterans Administration Medical Center, and the Departments of Anatomy and Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor.

Earle D. Chesney

Earle D. Chesney (born June 6, 1900 in Swanton, Nebraska; d. 1966) served with the Veterans Administration before joining the Eisenhower White House staff on March 4, 1954.

Gladys Lounsbury Hobby

In 1959, Hobby left Pfizer to specialized in chronic infectious diseases as chief of research at the Veterans Administration Hospital in East Orange, New Jersey.

Gordon H. Mansfield

In attendance were dignitaries such as Massachusetts Congressman John Olver, CEO of Soldier On Jack Downing and Director of Homeless Programs for the Veterans Administration Peter Dougherty, who, with Mansfield’s wife Linda, unveiled a large bronze bas relief of Mansfield by sculptor Andrew DeVries that marks the entrance to the community.

Radioimmunoassay

This technique was developed in the 1950s by Rosalyn Yalow and Solomon Aaron Berson working at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital affiliated with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Wheelchair trainer

Arcade game software and clinical data acquisition use were first introduced by the Veterans Administration's WAFT as a means of promoting stationary wheelchair propulsion as a beneficial aerobic exercise.