Megan Cheng, MD

Megan Cheng, MD

Megan was born and raised in Ithaca, New York until the age of nine, when she moved with her parents back to their home country of Taiwan. This move and her (initial) illiteracy in Chinese sparked her interests in education, memory, and linguistics. When she moved back to the US to attend Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, she majored in neuroscience and minored in linguistics. She also participated in research studying reward circuit deficits underlying comorbid schizophrenia and substance use. After college, she worked as a clinical research coordinator in the Trauma and Burn Surgery department at Children’s National in Washington, DC, studying the use of checklists in trauma activations and other quality improvement measures. Luckily, her gap years did not convince her to deviate from a career in neurology. She decided to attend medical school at UCLA DGSOM and discovered that the west coast hype is well-deserved! She is thrilled to be staying at her home program for residency and is currently completing her IM intern year at the West LA VA. Her academic interests in neurology include headache, neuroimmunology, and movement disorders – as well as dispelling the neurophobia that so many medical students experience. Outside of medicine, she enjoys recreating recipes from her childhood in Taiwan, trying out new restaurants in LA, watching Kdramas (and learning Korean), playing badminton, and dancing around her apartment (where no one is watching)! She is also a proud cat mom to Kamo (Japanese for duck - yes, she named her cat Duck).