Cleveland Clinic research director plays major role in innovations for treatment following colorectal surgery

For Marylise Boutros, MD, the high point of her career has been leading research that can improve the quality of life for patients following surgery for colorectal cancer. It’s a reward that continually pays dividends with each recovering patient.

“This is the fruit of my last 12 years of work and really my passion,” says Boutros, director of research for Cleveland Clinic’s Ellen Leifer Shulman and Steven Shulman Digestive Disease Institute in Florida.

In this episode of the Florida Health Care Insider podcast, presented by Cleveland Clinic in Florida in partnership with the South Florida Business Journal, Dr. Boutros discusses advances in post-surgery care for patients experiencing low anterior resection syndrome, or LARS — advances she helped develop.

One advancement: an AI-assisted app Boutros and other researchers are developing that connects patients with each other, and with physicians, who can provide support and answer questions.

“Patients will be able to seek education and counseling and not feel alone and get real expert advice,” Boutros says.

Listen to this episode to hear about:

• The cornerstone of LARS management (8:59)
• Boutros’ interest in the interaction between the brain and the gut (22:57)

Learn more here about Cleveland Clinic in Florida’s Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute.