It was designed by architect I.M. Pei. Patients were transferred there from the existing hospital in June 2008. In the rankings released for 2022-23, U.S. News & World Report ranked David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA at No. 19 in the U.S. in research and ranked UCLA Medical Center at No. 5. Affiliated hospitals Notable hospitals and Medical Centers affiliated with UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine are: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center: The best hospital in California and the west coast, and 2nd best hospital in the United States as per U.S. News & World Report 2022-23 rankings. UCLA Medical Center: The 2nd best hospital in California and the west coast, and 5th best hospital in the United States as per U.S. News & World Report 2022-23 rankings. West LA VA Medical Center St. Mary Medical Center Kaiser Permanente- Sunset Kaiser Permanente- Woodland Hills Summer programs The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA accepts applications for summer academic enrichment programs. These programs include the Premedical/Predental Enrichment Program (PREP), Summer Medical Dental Education Program (SMDEP), and the Re-Application Post baccalaureate Program (RAP). Application deadlines are March 1 for the PREP and SMDEP programs, while the RAP program has a deadline of May 15. Notable faculty Arie S. Belldegrun, FACS; a director of the UCLA Institute of Urologic Oncology; Professor and Chief of Urologic Oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine; holds the Roy and Carol Doumani Chair in Urologic Oncology; Clinical Director of the UCLA Prostate Disease Research Program; Surgical Director of the UCLA Kidney Cancer Program Selma Calmes, co-founder of the Anesthesia History Association, former vice-chair of the department of anesthesiology Bruce Dobkin, director of neurological rehabilitation and editor-in-chief of the journal Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair Patrick Dowling, Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine; co-founder and co-director of the UCLA IMG Program (for International medical graduate); given the title of NHSC Ambassador by the National Health Service Corps David Fish, physiatrist, editor of a popular PM&R handbook, PM&R Pocketpedia Robert Peter Gale FACP, FRSM, expert in leukaemia therapy and bone marrow transplants; helped the Soviet Union and Japan governments mitigating the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear power faculty accidents Michael Gottlieb, one of the first physicians to report a case of AIDS Louis Ignarro, 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine Babak Larian, assistant clinical professor of surgery, otolaryngology Linda Liau, W. Eugene