Carla Kuon

MD

Integrative medicine specialist

Dr. Carla Kuon is an integrative medicine doctor who specializes in caring for patients with blood cancers. She has particular interests in integrative oncology, nutrition, functional immunology, genomics, mind-body medicine and traditional Chinese medicine.

Kuon earned her medical degree from the Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Tufts Medical Center. She completed a fellowship in integrative medicine at UCSF.

Kuon co-managed UCSF's hematology-oncology inpatient service for more than seven years. She also directs the massage therapy consultation service for UCSF patients who are receiving chemotherapy for blood cancers.

Kuon believes that patients with chronic illnesses can improve their health through a whole-body approach that includes making nutritional changes, reducing stress and addressing the underlying drivers of illness. She personalizes her guidance to patients on biomedical and lifestyle-based options for enhancing their health.

  • Education

    UT Health San Antonio, MD, 2001

  • Residencies

    Tufts Medical Center, Internal Medicine, 2004

  • Fellowships

    UCSF, Integrative Medicine, 2018

  • Academic Title

    Associate Professor

  • Languages

    Spanish

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    My reviews

    4.9

    Overall Experience
    195 Ratings
    About our process
    Sep 19, 2024
    Dr. Kuon is compassionate and knowledgeable. She helped reframe my thinking about my path to recovery.
    Sep 09, 2024
    Superior care and attention to my concerns. Dr. Kuon has helped me heal when a number of other providers suggested I learn how to live with my symptoms.
    Aug 28, 2024
    If I could give Dr Kuon higher than a 5, I would! She is a superb practitioner and genuinely cares about my health.
    Aug 03, 2024
    I'd give Dr. Kuon a 10. She provides care of my condition not available anywhere else.
    Aug 01, 2024
    I find Dr. Kuon to be very empathetic & appreciate that I never feel rushed or not heard.
    Aug 01, 2024
    Extraordinary Doctor on all levels
    Jun 26, 2024
    Dr. Kuon is awesome! She cares, she takes time to listen, and she is very knowledgeable
    Jun 23, 2024
    Dr Kuon is very easy to talk to. She's very informative and passionate about her work.
    Jun 22, 2024
    Dr. Kuon is an amazing doctor. She provides practical guidance and solutions for dietary and physical changes to address health concerns.
    Jun 15, 2024
    For anyone w long covid, this course is valuable to recovery process. Techniques provided will improve quality of life.
    Jun 14, 2024
    Because she had so much to do and say in such a short time., It was a little less personal, but at the very end when I had questions, she did answer efficiently. I wanted to know more about the way that it affected my heart, but when I thought about it, it was all explained in what she gave to us in the pdf's and lessons. Overall, my experience with her was very wonderful. I am very grateful that I was able to be a participant in the program. After many years of suffering, and not getting many answers, she really helped fill in the blanks. I saw everyone that was a part of the program go from looking like near death to having glow back in their skin and smiles on their faces by the third appointment. What a blessing! We are finally on our road to true healing, no more Band-Aids.
    Jun 04, 2024
    It was and has always been an exceptional experience to work with Dr. Kuon.
    Jun 04, 2024
    Dr. Kuon takes great length to learn about me, answer my questions, address my concerns and provide specific recommendations. As a retired nurse, I consider her an excellent teacher and guide.
    May 17, 2024
    I appreciated the attention to detail and outstanding communication standards.
    May 08, 2024
    There isn't an option on your scale that reflects the superlative care this provider offers. She is warm, caring, personable, generous with her time and knowledge, and creative in her approach to treating patients with an illness for which there is no FDA-approved cure. I am very hopeful about the strategies she has identified, and thanks to her and the UCSF funds she helped connect me to, I am able to access supplements I'm optimistic will make a real difference in my quality of life and overall function. There is very good reason why her practice is full and people are still trying to be her new patients.
    May 07, 2024
    Dr. Kuon was amazing.
    May 03, 2024
    Dr. Kuon continues to be an outstanding advocate of mine. She excells in care, understanding, compassion and an amazing breadth of knowledge. My best doctor ever!!
    May 01, 2024
    Most excellent. Addressed solutions to symptoms.
    Apr 08, 2024
    I trust Dr. Kuon 100% as she listens carefully, does extensive research on any recommendation, and spends precious time with me.
    Mar 30, 2024
    I've recommended Dr Kuon to others with Long Covid over and over. I wish everyone had access to this level of care. Thank you
    Mar 26, 2024
    Brilliant, wonderful doctor who is empathetic and easy to talk with and really cares. She makes complicated health concepts easy to understand. Dr. Kuon is the only provider who explained alternative health options clearly and credibly.
    Dec 21, 2023
    Really appreciate her expertise, compassion and personalized care.
    Dec 15, 2023
    Dr Kuon has been the best, most supportive and especially the most effective doctor in restoring my health.
    Dec 13, 2023
    Dr. Kuon is an exceptional doctor - she is knowledgable, kind and caring. Thank you for offering her services through Osher.
    Dec 06, 2023
    I've seen about a dozen healthcare providers in a year of very severe Long Covid (almost 5 months bed bound, myocarditis, pneumonia). Barely any of them knew what the condition was, and some (including UCSF primary care) didn't take it seriously and told me to "just wait". Dr Kuon at Osher was the only provider who could actually help, and I'm now on the way to having my normal life back (from being bed bound and dependent on 24/7 help when Dr Kuon started treating me 6 months ago). I am extremely grateful to her and the staff at Osher. I wish more patients had access to her expertise and that more doctors were trained how to treat the condition. Sadly Long Covid and related conditions like ME/CFS do not seem to be part of standard medical training, despite how debilitating it is for some people, and despite being actually treatable (which few doctors seem to be aware of). Hoping for other patients like me that UCSF can expand the fantastic care at Osher and reach more patients.
    Nov 01, 2023
    Carla has abundant knowledge that enables her to provide excellent care. Absolutely recommend her in addition to one's PC.
    Oct 31, 2023
    Dr. Kuan listened to my symptoms carefully, she gave me her advice and suggestions. She followed up previous symptoms. Dr. Kuon explain me a long term plan, thats complete solution for me, I appreciate it a lot.
    Oct 21, 2023
    Dr. Kuon is an amazing doctor in every way possible ever so exceptional! I am so grateful to her for the incredible care that she continues to provide.
    Aug 10, 2023
    Absolutely the best medical investigation best information best guidance and best follow up
    Jul 27, 2023
    Dr Kuon really cares and she has been very helpful, literally turned my life around for the better. She knows what she is doing.
    Jul 20, 2023
    The best, so grateful for her help.
    Jul 14, 2023
    She is wonderful!
    Jun 28, 2023
    She is very though in her evaluation and recommendations and explains things clearly.
    Jun 22, 2023
    Dr Kuon is as good as it gets when explaining complicated medical situations to me. I have learned so much from her and feel very lucky to have her on my Care Team. She is also innovative which I appreciate as I don't respond well to most therapies.
    Jun 15, 2023
    Her Intergrative Medicine skills are exceptional
    Jun 01, 2023
    Awesome Dr!
    May 31, 2023
    Best doctor I ever had
    May 30, 2023
    Thank you so much Dr Kuon. You have been an incredible support, you have helped me to learn how to regain my strength and become healthy.
    May 06, 2023
    Dr. Kuon has an incredible amount of knowledge. She has taken the time to learn about many areas within medicine in order to benefit patients. Sometimes her explanations are way too detailed especially for people with compromised cognition. It seems she is thinking out loud about things or emphasizing information that is important to her, without necessarily selecting information that will be most useful to patients. That's just my experience.
    May 02, 2023
    Visit Dr. Kuon is my best experience I ever had, she seems understand all my sysptom, she gave me suggestion what supplement to take, not mediction, they works so well, bring my quality of life back, I am so happy and deeply appreciate her wonderful advise and care.
    Apr 09, 2023
    20 thumbs up. Had a series a covid infections I wasn't healing from and Dr Kuon's staff fit me in
    Apr 08, 2023
    Dr. Carla Kuon is the best of the best!!!!! I ultimately sing her praises!!!!
    Feb 22, 2023
    Dr. Kuon is the best most caring informed Doctor I have ever worked with!
    Feb 17, 2023
    Exceptional Doctor with extraordinary knowledge! I am beyond grateful she is my Doctor!
    Jan 28, 2023
    Dr Kuon is a fantastic Dr. And she has helped me when no one could. She is brilliant and caring.
    Jan 26, 2023
    Dr Kuon is attentive, knowledgeable, intuitive, and puts all the pieces of information together to help the person who is her patient to health and well-being.
    Jan 21, 2023
    Outstanding care. Thorough, clear, organized. Great continuity of care from last appointment as well with a recap of where we had left off and description of the test results that had arrived since.
    Jan 08, 2023
    Exceptional Doctor on every way
    Dec 29, 2022
    Dr. Kuon brings incredible knowledge and expertise into her role with patients. She has provided me with more education and insight about my condition and many of the doctors I have seen. Very helpful!
    Dec 03, 2022
    I appreciate Dr. Kuon and find her easy to talk to and a good listener.
    Nov 23, 2022
    I feel very honored and privileged to be in the care of Dr. Carla Kuon. She is an exceptional care provider in every way possible. She embodies the utmost greatness!

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