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Douglas Flora: Another outstanding addition to our team—welcome Professor Choi!

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Aug 31, 2023, 19:01

Douglas Flora: Another outstanding addition to our team—welcome Professor Choi!

Douglas Flora, the Executive Medical Director of Oncology Services at St. Elizabeth Medical Center, recently shared on LinkedIn:

“Another outstanding addition to our team—welcome Professor Choi!

In 2023, the best cancer care is real multidisciplinary care, by subspecialists like this. Add Nurse navigation, Integrative Oncology, nutrition, and research and you are seeing Whole Person Care at the highest level.

Dr. Choi is one of 36 new providers added right here at St. Elizabeth Healthcare and St. Elizabeth Physicians IN JUST THREE YEARS.

Dr. Choi recently came to St. Elizabeth after leading the gastrointestinal multidisciplinary cancer team at New York’s Stony Brook University for the last eight years. He has also taken care of complex GI cancer patients over the last 19 years since completing fellowship training at Wayne State University (Karmanos Cancer Institute) in Michigan.

The vision St. Elizabeth has for cancer treatment, Dr. Choi says, aligns with his own: “providing excellent, innovative, multidisciplinary cancer care to all patients close to home.”

Cancer treatment options have improved, he says — like the recent discovery that certain drugs can stimulate our own immune system to better fight cancer. ‘So, we can offer immunotherapy in gastroesophageal and hepatobiliary cancer with less toxicity and better efficacy,’ Dr. Choi explains.

‘Another advancement is understanding tumor biology and using next-generation sequence,” he continues. “Now, we can sequence the whole cancer genome and provide targeted therapy to our cancer patients resulting in fewer side effects and better efficacy, which is also known as precision oncology. St. Elizabeth has been offering precision oncology and genomic services for the last five years, led by Dr. Brooke Phillips and Jaime Grund right in our backyard.'”

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Source: Douglas Flora/LinkedIn