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Melvin & Bren Simon GI Quality Improvement Program Scholar

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Overview
UCLA's Melvin and Bren Simon Gastroenterology Quality Improvement Program is committed to providing high-quality care and comprehensive education in quality improvement and assurance principles and research for those interested in pursuing an academic career. The Melvin & Bren Simon Gastroenterology Quality Improvement Program scholar is a one-year position for an individual interested in quality improvement and health care delivery. The scholar will participate in several QI efforts and initiatives in the UCLA Department of Medicine and UCLA Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases, contribute to research and publications, and develop a personal capstone project for submission to nationally recognized conferences.

Project design and leadership
With the support of the QI program director and UCLA quality leaders, the scholar will implement and assess quality interventions throughout the UCLA Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases, reaching all UCLA gastroenterology Facilities including satellite clinics. Clinical areas may include colorectal cancer screening, inflammatory bowel diseases, hepatology, motility disorders, functional bowel disorders and inpatient/outpatient clinical practice.

Education/Training
The scholar is expected to attend gastroenterology clinical case conferences with special skill building classes as needed through CTSI, the Department of Medicine, Intermountain Health, Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health and UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Education will include the following topics but is not limited to:

  • Epidemiology and statistics
  • Data analysis and research design
  • Quality improvement principles, tools and techniques
  • Lean methodology
  • Patient safety
  • Health information technology and informatics
  • Leadership and change management
  • Presentation skills and public speaking

Mentorship/Career development
The fellowship will be directed by Fola May, MD, PhD, MPhil (May Laboratory), a gastroenterologist, health services researcher, and director of the Gastroenterology Quality Initiative Program at UCLA (Health Services Research). Scholars will work directly with UCLA Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases leadership and Dr. May and will be paired with additional UCLA faculty members and quality leaders, based on clinical interests. Scholars are expected to meet with their mentors on a regular basis to discuss project details, career goals and aspirations. Scholars will have the opportunity to participate in meetings with hospital quality leadership, establish personalized roles on various quality improvement and assurance committees, and serve as liaison within the UCLA Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine Family Practice Group and various gastroenterology professional societies.

Requirements
Applicants should have completed an ACGME accredited academic internal medicine residency OR a graduate-level degree in public health, statistics, epidemiology or health services. Those candidates with experience in clinical research and an interest in academic medicine are also highly encouraged to apply. Graduates from internal medicine training programs interested in pursuing specialty training in gastroenterology are also encouraged to apply.

Deadline to apply as a scholar for 2021-22
You may submit an application as early as September 1, 2020 and up until January 30, 2021.

How to apply
Please send the following documents by email to Dr. Fola May at fmay@mednet.ucla.edu, subject: Melvin and Bren Simon Gastroenterology Quality Improvement Program:

  1. Brief personal statement describing career interests (word limit: 300)
  2. Curriculum vitae
  3. One or two letters of recommedation; (must be sent directly by the author)

Current scholar - Career development GI quality improvement

Camille Soroudi, MD

Camille Soroudi, MD
Scholar, GI Quality Improvement Program
Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Dr. Soroudi earned a bachelor of science in molecular and cellular biology at Johns Hopkins University, her medical degree at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and recently graduated from the UCLA Internal Medicine Residency Program. She is currently working under the mentorship of Dr. May as the Melvin and Bren Simon GI Quality Improvement Scholar for the 2020-2021 academic year, coordinating multiple research initiatives aimed at improving colon cancer screening, polyp surveillance, diagnostic follow-up of positive fecal immunochemical tests (FIT), and reducing wasteful endoscopy system wide at UCLA Health..


Past scholars

Anthony Myint, MDAnthony Myint, MD
2019-2020
Edgar Corona MD MPHEdgar Corona, MD, MPH, MSIV
2018-2019
Courtney Reynolds, MDCourtney Reynolds, MD, PhD
2017-2018


Aria Zand MDAria Zand, MD
2016-2017

Jitin Makker MDJitin Makker, MD
2015-2016
Christine Yu MDChristine Yu, MD
2014-2015





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