As a professor of radiology in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a professor of bioengineering in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aberle was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine and Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
[1] Upon completing her residency and fellowship, Aberle joined the faculty at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
[2] She followed this up by publishing the first annual screening examinations NLST in 2013, showing that low-dose CT scans could detect early-stage lung cancer at a faster rate than chest X-ray.
[4] As a professor of radiology in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a professor of bioengineering in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aberle was the principal investigator of a project to develop liquid biopsy tools for testing individuals who could have lung cancer.
[5] In recognition of her work, she was also elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.