update from meeting with ibd specialist dr. shamita shah
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Update From Meeting with IBD Specialist Dr. Shamita Shah. August 18th, 2009. Good News. Fully supportive of the concept Understands importance of and our reasoning behind both devices Supports probiotic research - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Update From Meeting with IBD
SpecialistDr. Shamita Shah
August 18th, 2009
Good News Fully supportive of the concept
Understands importance of and our reasoning behind both devices
Supports probiotic research
Enthusiastic for future implications of this device as a “treatment/diagnostic tool”
Willing to share her own slides on IBD and give 20 presentation on her current knowledge She has great statistics and can help us frame our device to tailor to a specific target audience
Next Steps Decide what “phase” of IBD we want to target Early diagnostic… difficult to distinguish between UC and Crohn’s, but certainly useful
Complementary treatment: use as another “tool” for clinicians
Post-treatment diagnostic to prevent recurrence…
Dr. Shah sees this as the most promising and necessary right now w/ regards to treatment
No previous probiotic research in this fieldMany cases lead to recurrence- and patients need annual colonic scopes
Meet w/ Dr. Shah again early September
Challenges We need numbers…
The “ratio” needs to be known or better understood and Dr. Shah doesn’t collect these numbers
When/how will the device be “triggered” with regards to these numbers?
Switch bacterial strain to be more sustainable in the small intestine?