What makes us UCLA.

To begin, UCLA Healthcare is part of the University of California system, whose reputation for excellence and stability is solidly established. As we are part of a greater whole, so are we also made up a series of institutions, departments, branches and services that comprise one of the most accomplished and broad-based healthcare systems in the country.  University of California jobs come with a prestigious pedigree, just consider these facts:

• UCLA Medical Center is consistently ranked by U.S. News and World Report as among the top ten on its Best Hospitals Honor Roll.
• We are known worldwide for our research and expertise in complex procedures. UCLA Medical Center is ranked among the leaders in critical specialties year after year by U.S. News and World Report's Annual Honor Roll.
  
• As a world renowned health care innovator, UCLA attracts physicians from across the nation and more than a hundred of them are cited in 'The Best Doctors in America,' based on a poll of thousands of medical specialists.
  
• UCLA Professor Louis J. Ignarro won the Nobel Prize in October 1998. This professor in the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at the UCLA School of Medicine was one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine whose research led to the discovery that nitric oxide is used as signal molecule by the cardiovascular system.