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Medicine In Our Backyard with Gary Deng, MD, PhD

What Else Can I Do? Integrative Whole-Person Cancer Care

Medicine in our Backyard

The Newport Beach Public Library Foundation in collaboration with UCI Health is pleased to present the 2025-2026 season of Medicine in Our Backyard featuring an extraordinary group of renowned doctors and researchers speaking on a wide range of topics. The UCI doctors present the latest studies and newest technologies in an engaging online forum. This series is funded in part by the generosity of long time Newport Beach Public Library Foundation members Mike and Polly Smith. 

 LOCATION CHANGED TO  CIVIC CENTER COMMUNITY ROOM, 100 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE, NEWPORT BEACH

What Else Can I Do? Integrative Whole-Person Cancer Care

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Gary Deng, MD, PhD

Associate Director — UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Director — UCI Health Integrative Oncology Program 
Professor — Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, UC Irvine School of Medicine

Monday, October 13, 2025, 7:00pm

Join Gary Deng, MD, PhD, director of the new Integrative Oncology Program at the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute as he discusses the importance of pairing integrative health alongside cancer treatment, what those therapies include and the benefits to patients.

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For more information on the series: https://nbplf.foundation/programs/medicine-in-our-backyard/

 Event details and RSVP Information: 

  • Location: Civic Center Community Room, 100 Civic Center Drive, Newport Beach 
  • Doors open 6:30pm
  • Presentation followed by Q&A
  • FREE EVENT

 Questions? Contact Director of Programs Kunga Wangmo-Upshaw kupshaw@nbplf.foundation or 949-717-3818.

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