How to use cardiac and endocrine biomarkers during immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy

Dr Arjun K Ghosh MBBS, MSc, PhD, FHEA, FACC, FESC, FRCP, FICOS is a Consultant Cardiologist at Barts Heart Centre (BHC), St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London and at University College London Hospital (UCLH). He is the first cardiologist in the UK to be appointed specifically in cardio-oncology and helped establish Cardio-Oncology services at both these hospitals which are now amongst the biggest services worldwide. Arjun leads the cardio-oncology service at UCLH. Arjun is also actively involved in developing cardio-oncology curricula and guidelines and changing practice through the British Society of Echocardiography, British Cardio-Oncology Society and International Cardio-Oncology Society and UK Specialist Advisory Committee (SAC). He was joint first author of the first British cardio-oncology guidelines published earlier this year. He runs the UK’s only national Cardio-Oncology Study Day and help organise the only pan-European Cardio-oncology Symposium. Outside of the interesting world of cardiology’s newest subspecialty Arjun is involved in cardiac MRI (CMR) and cardio-oncology echocardiography and has several national and international leadership and management positions at the British Cardiovascular Society, the Royal Society of Medicine, the British Cardio-Oncology Society and the International Cardio-Oncology Society. He is the co-host of the ICOS podcast and has recently been appointed to the ACC Cardio-Oncology Leadership Council. You can find him on Twitter @arjunkg.

Director of the Interactive Learning Module in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism for the Department of Medicine Interns , University of Pennsylvania. Director of Resident Rotations in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Neilan is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a cardiologist at MGH, the director of the Cardio-Oncology Program at MGH and the co-director of the Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center. He holds the Michael and Kathyrn Park Chair in Cardiology. He is a physician scientist and a board-certified cardiologist. He completed his medical school training at University College Dublin Medical School, his clinical training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the Mater Hospital in Dublin and repeated his training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at MGH. He has also competed advanced training in echocardiography at MGH, a clinical and research fellowship in cardiac MRI at BWH, and a Master’s in Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. His career has had two major focuses: 1) Understanding how we can improve the cardiovascular care of patients with cancer and 2) The use of advanced imaging to better understand and characterize cardiovascular disease. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 original manuscripts, 40 review articles, has presented over 400 abstracts at international meetings, and has lectured at major national and international meetings. Dr. Neilan has been awarded the “de Gunzburg Family Endowed Scholar in Cardiology”, The Locke Award for excellence in medical education and elected as a Senior Fellow to the Oliver Wendell Holmes Society at Harvard Medical School.