Multimodality Imaging for Cardiac Surveillance of Cancer Treatment in Children: Recommendations From the American Society of Echocardiography

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 Luc Mertens is Medical Director of Echocardiography and Co-Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, CA. 

With the University of Toronto, he has been appointed Professor of Paediatrics and is a Senior Associate Scientist for the Research Institute at SickKids. 

His research interests include developing novel non-invasive imaging techniques for assessing cardiac and vascular function of children with congenital and acquired heart disease. Dr Mertens has been involved in leadership positions within different professional organisations in Europe and North America.  He is the current president of the Canadian Pediatric Cardiology Association. 
 

Dr Gautam Singh is Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of Pediatric Cardiology at Central Michigan University/Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Michigan, US. 

The focus of his clinical and translational research is on phenotypes and mechanics of the heart in congenital heart diseases, cardio-oncologic and cardio-genetic conditions through innovative application of multi-modality imaging. 

Dr Singh co-chaired the writing committee that made recommendations of the American Society of Echocardiography for “Multimodality Imaging for Cardiac Surveillance of Cancer Treatment in Children”. 
 

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.