THE CARE CENTER'S MISSION

Providing the Best Possible Care

The physicians of the UCLA Clinical AIDS Research and Education (CARE) Center have provided care to thousands of individuals with HIV infection since the first cases of this disease were reported at UCLA in 1981. With leaders in basic science, clinical research, epidemiology, and behavioral science, the UCLA AIDS Institute and the CARE Center have consistently ranked in the top five institutions in the nation for HIV research and patient care. New treatments ranging from antiretroviral drugs, immune-based and genetic therapies, vaccines, and treatments for the complications of HIV have been developed and evaluated at the CARE Center. We continue to attract patients from Southern California and across the country as we help to develop new, more effective, and less toxic treatments for HIV and its associated diseases.

Our mission is to provide outstanding care, to conduct research that brings the advances of science directly to our patients, and to educate the new generation of doctors and other healthcare professionals, both here and internationally, in HIV treatment and in the conduct of clinical research to combat this worldwide epidemic. Our vision for the future has, as one of its key elements, the development of a state-of-the-art facility for providing high-quality patient care to individuals with HIV infection in a multidisciplinary, research- and education-oriented clinic.

Ronald T. Mitsuyasu, M.D.
Director

Judith S, Currier, M.D.
Co-Director