Seed Grants - Past

Effect of mindfulness-based virtual reality intervention on outcomes in hospitalized IBD patients
Fellow: Devin B. Patel, MD
Mentor: Berkeley N. Limketkai, MD, PhD

Improving rates of pre-procedure diagnostic workup before anti-reflux procedures
Fellow: Anthony Myint, MD
Mentors: Kevin Ghassemi, MD; Folasade P. May, MD, PhD, MPhil

Study of iron deficiency anemia after severe GI hemorrhage
Fellow: Elissa Lin, MD
Mentor: Dennis M. Jensen, MD

Use of a commercially available wearable device to assess the relationship between sleep and daily step count on irritable bowel syndrome symptoms
Fellow: Wendi G. Le Brett, MD
Mentor: Lin Chang, MD

Predictors of biologic response and failure in IBD
Fellow: Vivy Cusumano, MD
Mentors: Berkeley N. Limketkai, MD, PhD; Jonathan P. Jacobs, MD, PhD

Diagnostic yield of single-operator cholangioscopy-guided biopsies for indeterminate bilary strictures 
Fellow: Christopher Paiji, MD
Mentor: Stephen Kim, MD

Fatigue in inflammatory bowel disease: A pilot study 
Fellow: Jessica Su, MD
Mentors: Berkeley N. Limketkai, MD, PhD; Jonathan P. Jacobs, MD, PhD; Jenny Sauk, MD

AnX/Ankon Navicam magnetically controlled capsule endoscopy feasibility study in gastric motility
Fellow: Dean Ehrlich, MD
Mentors: Lin Chang, MD; Jeffrey L. Conklin, MD; Alireza Sedarat, MD

Characterization of liver non-parenchymal cell response to hepatocyte cholesterol dysregulation in diet-induced steatohepatitis
Fellow: Alexander Nguyen, MD, PhD
Mentor: Peter Tontonoz, MD, PhD

Malnutrition and the microbiome within IBD populations
Fellow: Melissa Corson, MD
Mentors: Berkeley N. Limketkai, MD, PhD; Jonathan P. Jacobs, MD, PhD

Patient navigation program for hospitalized patients with alcohol-associated liver disease: A feasibility pilot study
Fellow: Yun Wang, MD
Mentor: Arpan A. Patel, MD, PhD

Optimizing perioperative nutrition for patients undergoing major inflammatory bowel disease surgery
Fellow: Andrew Weber, MD
Mentor: Berkeley N. Limketkai, MD, PhD

Assessing and improving pneumococcal vaccination rates in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) at UCLA
Fellow: Sonya Dasharathy, MD
Mentors: Jenny Sauk, MD; Folasade P. May, MD, PhD, MPhil; Berkeley N. Limketkai, MD, PhD

Determining whether retained esophageal contrast on modified barium swallow study predicts abnormal high-resolution esophageal manometry
Fellow: Jeremy Wang, MD
Mentor: Jeffrey L. Conklin, MD

Neuromodulation with percutaneous electrical nerve field stimulation for adults with irritable bowel syndrome: A randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled pilot
Fellow: Adrienne Lenhart, MD
Mentor: Lin Chang, MD

Training in small bowel capsule endoscopy: Establishing a curriculum and assessing competency in a fellowship training program
Fellow: Ashwinee S. Condon, MD
Mentor: Stephen Kim, MD

VSI-IBD: A measure of GI-symptom specific anxiety in IBD
Fellow: Sarah Park, MD
Mentor: Lin Chang, MD

Machine learning applications in gastrointestinal motility studies: High resolution esophageal manometry
Fellow: Lizhou Huang, MD
Mentors: Peter Chang, MD; Jeffrey L. Conklin, MD

Safety and efficacy of tenofovir alafenamide for hepatitis B prophylaxis post-liver transplantation
Fellow: Ryan Perumpail, MD
Mentor: Steven-Huy B. Han, MD

Studies of Dieulafoy’s lesion as a cause of severe GI hemorrhage: Risk factors, outcomes and comparison with peptic ulcer bleeding
Fellow: Benjamin Nulsen, MD
Mentor: Dennis M. Jensen, MD

Surveillance in young-onset colorectal cancer
Fellow: Frank Chen, MD
Mentor: Folasade P. May, MD, PhD, MPhil

Use of central neuromodulators in irritable bowel syndrome: A national survey of gastroenterologists
Fellow: Benjamin Nulsen, MD
Mentor: Lin Chang, MD

Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) versus computed tomography (CT) scan esophagogastric junction outflow obstruction (EGJOO), pseudoachalasia, and other esophageal motility disorders
Fellow: Andrew Su, MD
Mentors: Jeffrey L. Conklin, MD; Alireza Sedarat, MD

Evaluating the cytokine profile of patients with ulcerative colitis
Fellow: Nimah Jamaluddin, MD
Mentors: David Padua, MD, PhD; Jenny Sauk, MD

Microbiome profiling of chronic liver disease to develop microbial biomarkers for disease etiology and progression to fibrosis
Fellow: Tien S. Dong, MD
Mentors: Jonathan P. Jacobs MD, PhD; Joseph Pisegna, MD

Phenotyping of IBD patients with respect to clinical characteristics, stress measures and gut microbiome
Fellow: Amir Kalani, MD, PhD
Mentors: Emeran A. Mayer, MD; Jonathan P. Jacobs MD, PhD

Urgent colon capsule endoscopy for lesion localization and diagnosis in patients with severe hematochezia 
Fellow: Neil Marya, MD
Mentor: Dennis M. Jensen, MD

A novel sources of enteric neurogenesis during both embryogenesis and in the adult 
Fellow: Wael El-Nachef, MD
Mentor: Marianne Bronner, PhD

Advance care planning for patients with decompensated cirrhosis
Fellow: Arpan A. Patel, MD
Mentor: Anne Walling, MD, PhD

Association between esophageal dysfunction and lung severity in patients with systemic sclerosis
Fellow: David Lin, MD
Mentor: Jeffrey L. Conklin, MD

Pilot study using oral capsule fecal microbiota transplantation to decolonize gastrointestinal carbapenem-resistent enterobacteriaceae
Fellow: Lisa Lin, MD, MS
Mentor: Zachary Rubin, MD

Understanding perceptions and stages of change for diagnostic colonoscopy in patients with positive fecal immunochemical testing
Fellow: Christine Yu, MD
Mentor: Folasade P. May, MD, PhD, MPhil

What else to know about depatitis C and hepatocellular carcinoma and direct acting antivirals
Fellow: Kelvin Nguyen, MD
Mentors: Sammy Saab, MD, MPH; Steven-Huy B. Han, MD

A system biology approach to evaluation of LncRNAs in IBS
Fellow: Beth Videlock, MD
Mentor: Lin Chang, MD

Colorectal cancer screening in Arab American females
Fellow: Hala Al-Jiboury, MD
Mentor: Folasade P. May, MD, PhD, MPhil

Fructose reintroduction protocol in IBS patients successfully treated with a low FODMAP diet
Fellow: Rusha Modi, MD, MPH
Mentor: Lin Chang, MD

Genetic investigations into liver fibrosis
Fellow: Jihane N. Benhammou, MD
Mentor: Simon W. Beaven, MD, PhD

Involving the quality of endoscopic reporting of patients with Barrett's esophagus: A prospective multicenter study
Fellow: Philip Ge, MD
Mentor: V. Raman Muthusamy, MD, MAS

Using mobile app technology to analyze efficiency in the endoscopy unit and improve operational performance in the endoscopy center
Fellow: Neal Kaushal, MD, MBA
Mentor: V. Raman Muthusamy, MD, MAS

Emergency room resource utilization among inflammatory bowel disease patients
Fellow: Michelle Vu, MD
Mentor: Christina Ha, MD

Role of bile acids and receptor TGR5 in regulating glucose and energy homeostasis in gastric bypass patients
Fellow: Deepinder Goyal, MD
Mentor: Joseph Pisegna, MD

Time-driven, activity-based costing: Measuring the costs of implementing quality measures in inflammatory bowel disease
Fellow: Andrew Ho, MD
Mentors: Daniel Hommes, MD, PhD; Christina Ha, MD

UCLA Celiac Collective: Development of longitudinal E-cohort of celiac patients
Fellow: Guy Weiss, MD
Mentor: Lin Chang, MD