Childhood Cancer Survivorship Care: From Childhood to Adulthood

Dr Susmita Parashar is an Associate Professor in the Division of Cardiology of the Department of Internal Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, US. Dr Parashar is also a Cardiologist at the Emory Heart and Vascular Center.

Dr Parashar serves on the steering committee for the International Cardio-Oncology Society (ICOS) and is a member of the guideline committee to develop a best practice consensus document for cardio-oncology at ICOS.

Mary Stuart is a Nurse Practitioner at IWK Health Centre, Halifax, CA.

Mary has worked in Medical Oncology and Hematology at the Hospital for Sick Children for over 20 years and for the past six years has worked in Survivorship in Pediatric Late Effects, in the adult setting and in the pediatric setting at Princess Margaret Hospital and Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto Canada.  

She is now working in Halifax in the Pediatric Hospital IWK and will be developing an AYA programme for pediatric cancer survivors in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Dr Neha Bansal is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital and Icahn School of Medicine, New York. Her clinical focus is pediatric patients who have heart failure due to cardiomyopathy or congenital heart disease and has a keen interest in cardiac care of survivors of childhood cancer. Dr Bansal’s research focuses are pediatric cardiomyopathy, pediatric cardiac transplants and pediatric cardio-oncology. Her work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, books, manuscripts, and articles. She is a host to the podcast called “In the Flow- Conversations with Pioneers in Pediatric Heart Failure and Transplantation” available for free on all platforms and listened throughout the world. 

Dr Bansal received her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in 2011 at Seth G.S Medical College and K.E.M Hospital in Mumbai, India. From 2012 to 2018, she completed a residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Children’s Hospital of Michigan. She is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics. In 2017, Dr Bansal received the Children’s Cardiomyopathy Foundation and Kyle John Rymiszewski Foundation Research Scholar Award. She is an active member of various international organisations like ICOS and ISHLT as well as serves on the pediatric committee of UNOS (United Network Organ Sharing). 

Dr Dan Lenihan is a cardio-oncologist specialising in cardiology, heart disease and advanced heart failure, at Saint Francis Healthcare System, Cape Girardeau, US.

He is a co-Founder and Board Member of the International Cardio-Oncology Society (ICOS), which is an international professional association whose primary goal is to eliminate cardiac disease as a barrier to effective cancer therapy. 

He is actively involved in patient care as the Director of the Cardio-Oncology Programme, Cardiac Rehabilitation, and the Heart Failure clinic at Saint Francis Healthcare System.

Dr Joe Carver is the Bernard Fishman Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US. He is the Chief of Staff at the Abramson Cancer Center.

He is the Director of the Thalheimer Cardio-oncology Center at the Abramson Cancer Center and his clinical practice is in the subspecialty of cardio-oncology.