Session 5 - Keynote Debate: Imaging Guided Cardioprotective Strategies – Ready for Prime Time?

Dr. Dinesh Thavendiranathan is a cardiologist at the Peter Munk Cardiac Center at the Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto. He is an Associate Professor of medicine and a Clinician Scientist. Dr. Thavendiranathan’s Clinical work involves cardiac MRI, CT, and echocardiography and Cardio-oncology. He is the Director of the Ted Rogers Program in Cardiotoxicity Prevention. His research focus is in the use of advanced cardiac imaging techniques for detection and management of cardiac toxicity. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Cardio-oncology.

Dr Liu is a cardio-oncologist with expertise in echocardiography. Her areas of interest include developing imaging-based strategies to optimize cardiovascular health in patients with cancer.She is also focused on advancing education and training in the field of cardio-oncology.

Ronald Witteles, MD is Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) at the Stanford University School of Medicine. In addition to leading the CardioOncology program at Stanford, Dr. Witteles serves as Co-Director of both the Stanford Amyloid Center and the Stanford Multidisicplinary Sarcoidosis Program, and is an Associate Editor for JACC: CardioOncology. He has served as Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program at Stanford for over a decade, and in this role directly supverises the training of >140 residents each year.

Tom Marwick is the Director of Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute. His education was completed at the University of Melbourne, University of Louvain, Belgium and Harvard. His main contributions are in clinical research and research training, and has supervised over 30 research higher-degree students. He was one of the initiators of stress echocardiography, and has made contributions to the prognostic evidence underlying cardiovascular imaging. His main research interests relate to detection of early cardiovascular disease and cost-effective application of cardiac imaging techniques for treatment. He has published over 900 papers, reviews, chapters and editorials, and is an Associate Editor at JACC and Deputy Editor at JACC-Cardiovascular Imaging.