
Sonya Gabrielian, MD, MPH, is a psychiatrist and health services researcher at the VA Greater Los Angeles and UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. Her research focuses on implementation approaches to improve housing, health, and community functioning for homeless-experienced adults with serious mental illness. She is the VA Research Director of the VA/UCLA Center of Excellence for Veteran Resilience and Recovery; Co-lead of the Homelessness Strategic Priority Area at the VA HSR&D Los Angeles Center of Innovation; and Director of the Health Services Unit at the VISN22 Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center. She is also an Affiliated Researcher at the National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans and an Assistant Clinical Professor in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Gabrielian is also a practicing psychiatrist in VA Greater Los Angeles’ homeless program.