
Megan R.M. Aaronson (McLeod), MD MSc
@meganrmcleod
UCLA GI Chief Fellow | Health Policy & Advocacy researcher | @Kcollege and @umich med alum | maker, mover, lifelong learner. she/her
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Colorectal Cancer (#CRC) Screening Rates Continue to Fall Behind in Federally Qualified Health Centers Serving Majority Hispanic or Majority Black Patients 🌠Matthew Y. Zhao, BS 👥Megan R.M. Aaronson (McLeod), MD MSc Sadie De Silva Jayraan Badiee, MPH Fola May, MD PhD #MayLabUCLA 🗓️#DDW2024 May 18, 12:30 pm, Hall A


So grateful to Arpan Patel, MD PhD (he/him/his) for his mentorship and guidance! Proud to present our QI project: Pilot testing a novel AUD curriculum for GI Fellows at UCLA Gastroenterology and Hepatology


#DDW2024 May 20, 12:30pm, Hall A! New Screening Tests, Same Challenge: An Early Look at Colonoscopic Follow-Up After Abnormal Blood-Based #CRC Screening Results in a Real-World Setting 👤Timothy Zaki, MD 👥N Zhang VM Raymond N Ioannou SP Forbes A Das Fola May, MD PhD #MayLabUCLA


First two days of poster presentations from #MayLabUCLA at #DDW2024. Congratulations to Amarachi Erondu, MD, MS Anthony Myint Matthew Zhao and for your fantastic abstracts and presentations! Additional kudos to Matthew Zhao for his poster award! American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Digestive Disease Week


Celebrating another great poster session at #DDW2024! Congrats to Brandon C. Smith, MD Jessica Tuan Vidhi Singh Timothy Zaki, MD and #SadieDeSilva on your research and posters in #colorectalcancer #screening. Loving the foot traffic over here today Digestive Disease Week! #MayLabUCLA


👏 Great job Firas Bahdi and Philip Kozan, MD! They placed second in the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) GI Jeopardy. Our #UCLAGI team was there to cheer them on! Lin Chang Fola May, MD PhD Nancee Jaffe MS RDN Danny Issa, MD Robert Tamai Selena Zhou, MD Jessica Haraga, MD #ACG2024



💪Firas Bahdi & Philip Kozan, MD are on fire at ACG #ACG2024! Congratulations! 🔥 Dr. Bahdi - 1st place (3rd year) EndoTitans 🔥 Dr. Kozan - 2nd place (3rd year) EndoTitans 🔥 Drs. Bahdi & Kozan - 2nd place GI Jeopardy Lin Chang Eric Esrailian Department of Medicine at UCLA Health #UCLAGI

What a Fall for Firas Bahdi & Philip Kozan, MD! Finished 1st & 2nd at ACG EndoTitans competition & 2nd in ACG GI Jeopardy after having won ASGE GI Endoscopy Golden Scope competition w Selena recently! Super proud of you all!


🙌 #UCLAGI fellows win ACG Social Media Acumen Award for the 2024 UCLA Health Colorectal Cancer Awareness Campaign! The campaign is led by UCLA GI under the direction of Fola May, MD PhD. Thank you Dr. May for your passion & leadership and Lin Chang for your support.




Day 1 of Scrubs & Heels Summit, catching up with friends and mentors! It’s going to be a great weekend ❤️


#ScrubsNHeels25 Have you thought of your mission statement for professional advancement? Aasma Shaukat MD MPH 🌟Define your why= passion+values+impact 🌟Define your niche 🌟Build your brand + allyship ⭕️If you get close to the center of your Ikigai= success- the way you define it!


Inspired and uplifted by discussions today at Scrubs & Heels about women finding and expressing our voices as leaders in medicine. So grateful for the opportunity to connect with this powerful community! The future is bright because we will shape it! #ScrubsNHeels25


#DDW2025 Poster! Monday, May 5 Impact of Updated #CRC Screening Guidelines in United States Federally Qualified Health Centers: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of National Data 🙌Megan Rose McLeod Aaronson, MD, MSCR Megan R.M. Aaronson (McLeod), MD MSc 👤Senior: Fola May, MD PhD 👥Matthew Zhao Jayraan Badiee, MPH


It’s always great to catch up with alumni and to take a moment to have some fun during the busy Digestive Disease Week to celebrate the amazing work being presented at #DDW2025 by #UCLAGI and collaborating colleagues! Thank you to everyone (pictured/not pictured) who joined us 💙


Thank you American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) for yet another amazing #DDW, packed with incredible science, discovery, and innovation. Grateful for the camaraderie, particularly now. See you in Chicago next year! #MayLabUCLA #DDW2025 UCLA Gastroenterology and Hepatology UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center UCLA Health Digestive Disease Week
