IC-OS Topics in Cardio-Oncology - Exercise and Cancer Therapy

Dr Scott Adams is an Assistant Scientist (Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network [UHN]) and the Exercise Lead (Ted Rogers Cardiotoxicity Prevention Program, UHN). He is the Director of the ‘Research in Exercise & Cardiorespiratory Health in Oncology’ laboratory (UHN) and a member of the Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Program (Princess Margaret Cancer Centre) and the Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Program (Toronto Rehab Institute). He completed his PhD at the University of Alberta and two post-doctoral fellowships at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the University of Toronto. His research adopts precision medicine and knowledge translation approaches to (1) phenotype cancer patients and survivors using complementary cardiovascular profiling tools (e.g. cardiopulmonary exercise testing, vascular imaging, autonomic function assessments) to augment cardiovascular risk screening and stratification, (2) develop targeted exercise-based multi-modal therapies that target the discrete mechanisms of risk and injury within these phenotype-defined groups, and (3) facilitate the translation of this and related research into practice.