| Abbreviation | SIO |
|---|---|
| Founder | Barrie Cassileth |
| Type | Professional society |
| Legal status | 501(c)(3) organization |
| Purpose | Applying integrative medicine to oncology |
President | Ting Bao |
President-elect | Linda Carlson |
Immediate Past President | Lynda Balneaves |
| Website | integrativeonc |
The Society for Integrative Oncology (abbreviated SIO) is a multidisciplinary professional society dedicated to studying how to apply evidence-based integrative medicine to the treatment of cancer. It was established in 2003 and is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. [1] The founding president of the SIO was Barrie Cassileth, [2] and in October 2013, Heather Greenlee of Columbia University was named president. [3] Since the SIO's November 2015 meeting, its president has been Jun Mao of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. [4] Each fall, beginning in 2004, the SIO has held an international conference. [2] From 2003 to 2010, the SIO published a peer-reviewed journal: from 2003 to 2005, it was entitled the Journal of Cancer Integrative Medicine, after which it was renamed the Journal of the Society for Integrative Oncology.