A pediatric oncologist and a pediatric cardiologist walk into a bar . . . Discussions of interesting and perplexing patients between colleagues

Hugo R. Martinez is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. He is the Medical Director for the Cardiovascular Genetics Service, and a member of the Cardiomyopathy and Cardio-Oncology team in the Heart Institute at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital located in Memphis, TN.

Juli is a family nurse practitioner who joined the cardiology team at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital (CCHMC) in2014. She has been a providing care for pediatric oncology patients in the Cardio-Oncology clinic at CCHMC since 2018. She is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing and the Department of Nursing at Miami University of Ohio.

Thomas D. Ryan, MD, PhD, FAAP, FACC, FAHA is the Director of Clinical Operations in the Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure Program, and the founding Co-Director of the Cardio-Oncology Program at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC). He is also an Associate Professor of Pediatrics-Clinical at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Ryan graduated magna cum laude from Wichita State University with a BS in Biological Sciences and earned both an MD and PhD at the University of Alabama School of Medicine/University of Alabama at Birmingham. He completed general pediatrics residency and pediatric cardiology fellowship at CCHMC and was the first graduate of the CCHMC Heart Institute’s Advanced Fellowship in Pediatric Heart Failure, Cardiomyopathy, and Cardiac Transplantation. Dr. Ryan’s clinical and research interests focus on inherited and acquired cardiomyopathy as well as cardiac transplantation. He has particular emphasis on patients who have developed heart dysfunction because of cancer-related therapies. He has published over 60 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and is author of 10 textbook chapters. He was on the founding Leadership Council for the Cardio-Oncology Member Section of the American College of Cardiology and was the first Chair of the Pediatric Working Group. Dr. Ryan serves as Co-Chair of the Institutional Review Board at CCHMC, as well as Section Editor for the journal Cardio-Oncology.