News 2016

Folasade P. May, MD, PhD, MPhil, awarded UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Seed Grant

Dr. May, assistant professor of medicine in the division of digestive diseases, was awarded the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Seed Grant which will help fund the project "A Community-Academic Partnership to Improve Colorectal Cancer Screening in South Los Angeles." She will be working with members of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health to address colorectal cancer disparities in ethnic minorities. The support allows a collaboration between the To Help Everyone (T.H.E) Health and Wellness Centers and UCLA to improve colorectal cancer screening uptake among Latinos and African-Americans in the South Los Angeles Federally-Qualified Health Center (FQHC or Community Health Cente) where screening rates are low.