The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the nation's largest healthcare system with over 320,000 full time professionals and support staff. There are 1,255 VHA facilities including 170 VA Medical Centers 1,074 outpatient clinics varying levels of complexity across United States 9 million enrolled to receive care (https://www.va.gov/health/). One VHA's foundational missions providing clinica...

B asic research seeks to increase or advance knowledge through systematic investigation of a subject or phenomenon. In the healthcare sciences, basic research typically involves an exploration into physiologic processes at the level of the molecule, cell, tissue, or organism, and pathophysiologic mechanisms of injury or illness. Still, science does not thrive in a vacuum. As Louis Pasteur noted...