Colon Cancer and EndoOncology with Toufic Kachaamy, MD

My heartburn patients frequently ask me: how much chocolate can I have? What about wine? Coffee? Dillon Martin is a registered dietician who specializes in diabetes, weight optimization and gastroesophageal disorders. He answers these questions and gives practical dietary advice for those suffering with GERD. Today’s episode is brought to you by Castle Biosciences, maker of TissueCypher, a test designed to predict the risk of esophageal cancer in patients with Barrett’s esophagus.

What is intestinal ultrasound? How can it change the way we take care of our patients with inflammatory bowel disease? Dr. Bincy Abraham, Professor of Clinical Medicine at Houston Methodist and Director of the Fondren Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program, answers these questions and more in this episode of the Gut Doctor Podcast.

Beans are a staple in many cuisines around the world. In this episode of the Food as Medicine series, Dr. Parikh interviews Dr. Ruchir Paladiya, a third year medicine resident at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Paladiya details the various nutritional benefits of beans and how you can incorporate them into your diet. 

In this episode of the Gut Doctor podcast, Dr. Parikh interviews Dr. Jirapinyo, an interventional endoscopist who is triple boarded in bariatric endoscopy, obesity medicine and gastroenterology. She is Director of the Bariatric Endoscopy Fellowship program at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Medical Director of Bariendo. They discuss the role of endobariatrics in weight optimization programs, the ideal candidates and the future of this rapidly burgeoning field. They wrap up the episode by highlighting Bariendo - a weight loss company whose mission is to standardize high quality endoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and endobariatrics across the country. 

In this episode of the Innovation series, Dr. Parikh is back discussing virtual care platforms. Today he interviews Dr. Sahil Patel, gastroenterologist and Medical Director for SideBy Care, and Norah Candito, registered dietician and Director of Clinical Operations for SideBy Care. They discuss the origin of SideBy Care and delve into its mission to help patients with disorders of the gut-brain interaction. 

Continuing with Esophageal Cancer awareness month, Dr. Parikh interviews Dr. Lishan Aklog, who is chairman and CEO of Lucid Diagnostics. They discuss esophageal cancer pathophysiology, prevalence and the current state of esophageal cancer screening.  They then shift their focus to EsoGuard, a novel screening tool for Barrett's esophagus and esophageal cancer.This episode is brought to you by Lucid Diagnostics maker of the EsoGuard test for early detection of esophageal precancer.

April is Esophageal Cancer awareness month. Dr. Parikh interviews fellow gastroenterologist, Dr. George Sun. They discuss the epidemiology, risk factors, and symptoms of esophageal cancer before briefly providing an overview of treatment modalities. This episode is brought to you by Castle Biosciences, maker of TissueCypher, a test designed to predict the risk of esophageal cancer in patients with Barrett’s esophagus.

As the Gut Doctor podcast continues to raise awareness for colorectal cancer, Dr. Parikh interviews Dr. Paul Limburg, MD, who is a gastroenterologist and chief medical officer for Exact Sciences. They discuss colon cancer prevalence, barriers to CRC screening, and the role of stool based testing such as Cologuard. This episode is sponsored by Exact Sciences whose purpose is to help eradicate cancer by preventing it, detecting it earlier, and guiding personalized treatment. Exact Sciences is the maker of the Cologuard® test, a stool-based screening test for average risk adults ages 45 and over. 

As we continue to raise colon cancer awareness in the month of March, in this GI 101 episode, Dr. Parikh interviews Dr. Larry Kogan to discuss the basics of a colonoscopy. What is a colonoscopy? How do we do it? Why do we do it? Dr. Kogan is a third year gastroenterology fellow at Yale University. The GI 101 series is a set of episodes focused on interviewing physicians in training to get their perspective on bread and butter GI topics.

It is March so all our episodes focus on colorectal cancer! In today's episode, Dr. Toufic Kachaamy, Chief of Medicine and Director of Gastroenterology at City of Hope in Phoenix, discusses the new frontier of endoscopic oncology. He shares innovative insights on rectal cancer ablation, artificial intelligence for polyp detection, genomic testing for colon cancer and a new way to identify flat polyps that he has recently patented. His core message: we must detect polyps early and prevent colon cancer.