SIO Europe 2025 - integrative oncology team highlights
The Synthesis Clinic team was buzzing for weeks after an incredible weekend spent with our European, Middle Eastern and global colleagues at the SIO Europe 2025 conference in Oxford where our Director, Dr Nina Fuller-Shavel, was one of the Co-Presidents. The passion for integrative oncology and the spirit of multidisciplinary collaboration, contribution and compassion were so strong across both days, as well as the impact of voices of people with lived experience. We are so deeply grateful to our patients and clients for coming out to meet us and for sharing their experiences at the conference.
Our paediatric integrative oncology team also received a poster award, which was accepted by Becki Drewett, Service and Rehabilitation Lead, on behalf of the team. Our gynaecological cancer survey work in collaboration with Dr Nazanin Derakhshan from NCIO was presented as a poster by Dr Nina Fuller-Shavel and Dr Shira Peleg Hasson with much interest from colleagues globally. Many thanks to those of you who contributed to the survey!
All our integrative oncology doctors presented their work, from integrative immuno-oncology and mistletoe sessions with Dr Nina to an ovarian cancer grand round with Dr Shira and a workshop on integrative oncology around surgery with Dr Emma. Our nursing, nutrition and physiotherapy colleagues also gave some amazing presentations, highlighting the crucial impact of our team from rehabilitation to emotional and psychospiritual wellbeing support. Valuable collaborations were created that are going to pave the way for further research and clinical practice projects, which our team is really excited about. We also thoroughly enjoyed the gala dinner at the Oxford Museum of Natural History, which you can see from a picture of the team and a photo of Dr Nina with Dr Donald Abrams, a long-standing US leader in integrative oncology and medical cannabis, and Dr Channing Paller, SIO President-Elect.
What an amazing event that fills us with hope for the future of integrative oncology in the UK, Europe and beyond!
Read the full July 2025 newsletter with our updates here.
