UCLA’s Operation Mend program and the UCLA Health System welcomed the U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on Oct. 22.
One of the country’s highest ranking officials, Mabus made a special trip to UCLA to learn more about Operation Mend, a flourishing collaboration between UCLA and the military which offers reconstructive surgery to servicemen and women wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
[Operation Mend will be featured in a TLC documentary airing Nov. 22]
Operation Mend began in 2007 as a pilot program funded by philanthropist and UCLA Medical Center board member Ronald A. Katz, with the goal of easing the literal scars of war. Through the program, UCLA doctors have seen more than 30 patients, many of them injured by bomb blasts while serving in the Middle East.
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