05-19 IOWG - The Microbiome in Oncology - Sunday May- Carla Kuon MD, Shannon Fogh, MD, Sorbarikor Piawah, MD

1. Understand risk factors, pathophysiology, and the role of the microbiome in the etiology of cancer and the impact of tumor directed treatments on the microbiome.

2. Understand how lifestyle factors such as nutrition, quality of food, exercise and others can contribute to inflammation and downstream microbiome imbalance.

3. Recognize common GI conditions seen in patients with cancer such as SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth), SIFO (Small Intestinal Fungal Overgrowth), IMO (Intestinal Methanogen Overgrowth), dysbiosis, and loss of gut membrane integrity, aka “Leaky gut”

4. Describe strategies for diagnosing and treating GI dysfunction

5. Understand limitations of Integrative Oncologists in diagnosing and treating and when to partner with GI experts.

6. Recognize differences in the interplay between the microbiome and malignancy based on tumor type.

7. Understand the interaction of cardiometabolic health and the gut microbiome.

FREE WEBINAR FOR ALL HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS

RECORDINGS WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE TO IOWG MEMBERS

DISCLAIMER: THE THOUGHTS EXPRESSED ARE THOSE OF THE PARTICIPANTS & DO NOT REFLECT THE VIEWS

OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERAN AFFAIRS, IOWG, OR THE PARTICIPANTS WORKPLACE.

THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE FOR INFORMATION ONLY AND DO NOT CONSTITUTE MEDICAL ADVICE.

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Shannon Fogh, MD

Dr. Shannon Elizabeth Fogh is a Radiation Oncologist and Integrative Oncologist specializing in primary and metastatic brain tumors at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center with additional training and interest in functional medicine. Her research has focused on patient quality of life and neurocognition, and she is interested in the interplay between the microbiome, hormones, metabolic health and patients’ outcomes and quality of life.

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Dr. Carla Kuon is an Internist and Integrative Oncologist at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Health. As both an integrative internist and oncologist, she has training in functional immunology and significant expertise diagnosing and treating functional gut disorders in her clinical practice. She created and directed the inpatient hematology massage service at UCSF and has published articles on C. Difficile management in oncology patients. She is the director of the OPTIMAL-IH COVID Clinic and has authored a book on the outpatient management of Long COVID using integrative health approaches. She chairs the education case conference series at the Osher Center for Integrative Health and teaches the popular CODA course on "Food as Medicine" at UCSF.

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Sorbarikor Piawah, MD

Dr. Sorbarikor Piawah is a medical oncologist and cancer researcher specializing in gastrointestinal cancer, particularly colorectal cancer, at the UCSF Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her current research is focused on understanding the roles that the gut microbiome (the population of microorganisms living in the intestinal tract), diet and lifestyle play in disparities among those with colorectal cancer and on designing therapies that target these factors.

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Our gratitude to Drs Kuon, Fogh, and Piawah for their time and expertise

FREE WEBINAR FOR ALL HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS

RECORDING WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE TO IOWG MEMBERS

DISCLAIMER: THE THOUGHTS EXPRESSED ARE THOSE OF THE PARTICIPANTS & DO NOT REFLECT THE VIEWS OF THE

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERAN AFFAIRS, IOWG, OR THE PARTICIPANTS WORKPLACE. THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE FOR INFORMATION ONLY AND DO NOT CONSTITUTE MEDICAL ADVICE.

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