Leo Treyzon

Athlete, Concerned citizen, Doctor, Entrepreneur, Jewish, Single, Startup

Leo Treyzon, MD, MS is the Clinical Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He is a board certified specialist in clinical nutrition and gastroenterology. He specializes in the treatment of digestive conditions like irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), Crohn’s and Colitis (IBD), small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), and cancers of the digestive tract. His main clinical focus is in diagnosing and treating obscure causes of abdominal pain, excess gas, and altered bowel habit. His main area of investigation is in the effect of the gut microbiome in influencing development of chronic diseases (e.g. Alzheimers disease, coronary artery disease, and mood disorders). He is an assistant professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, where he completed his gastroenterology fellowship and masters degree in clinical research. He grew up in Los Angeles. He subsequently attended college at UC Santa Barbara where he was student body president. After graduating medical school at UC San Diego, he returned to Los Angeles to begin his medical residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Treyzon also co-founded KumbaHealth. This company is an online marketplace that enables consumers to find direct pay providers, including physicians, labs, and imaging centers. KumbaHealth is part of the movement to allow consumers more control over their healthcare with complete pricing transparency, the ability to see who they want to pursue medical treatment with, when they want it, and to take insurance coverage out of the equation.

Optimizing doctor-patient relationships. Developing systems that enable patients to get answers to their health inquiries in ways that align with the practitioners ability to provide those answers. Talk to me about how to be a better doctor... tell me what deficiencies you perceived in your health care experiences, and what you wish it WERE LIKE. How can doctors be of better value to you?

The human gut microbiome — which includes the community of trillions of bacteria and fungi living within our intestines — has the potential to be the next big frontier in medicine. Evolving research and my own clinical experience have shown that the bacteria in our gut exert a powerful influence on our immune and hormonal systems, brain health, mood and cognitive function, sexual function, and other key biological processes. We know that the balance of good and bad bacteria in the gut can keep us healthy — or can contribute to disease. Now, the next step for this exciting medical frontier is learning how to leverage the power of the microbiome to treat disease. I hope to be able to explore this on a patient-individualized basis for my own patients in 2018. Ask me what we are doing!

Gastroenterology, Health Care Delivery, Health Care Marketplaces, Nutrition

This is my first time at TED. I have been watching TED videos for several years every Sunday as I have been reading wireless capsule endoscopy videos for my gastroenterology patients. As my eyes were glued to the computer screen for review and interpretation of more than 100 million individual images for over 1000 patients during these wireless pill camera tests, I have listened to countless TED presentations over the years. TED has been a tremendous repository of knowledge, innovative thinking, and creative discovery for me personally. I have battle tested many of the suggestions that I took away from those talks. They work. They help me. I grow. I share the ideas. I repeat. Sundays = TED fundays Can't wait for Vancouver :)

Movie trivia.