Cardio-Oncology

We offer heartfelt congrats to the winners of the top abstracts at the First International Pediatric Cardio-Oncology Conference. The winners were each presented with a prize from the journal at the conference. The winners, in no particular order, are: Lieke (E.A.M.) Feijen-Allenstein, PhD; Takeshi Tsuda, MD, FACC; Elvira C. van Dalen, MD, PhD; and Christina Yang, MD.

We are proud to announce that Cardio-Oncology is taking part in two new cross-journal collections "Cancer Disparities" and "Long-term Impact of COVID in Cancer Patients." Both collections are now open for submissions.

We are excited to announce a new Cardio-Oncology initiative: "Practical Approaches to Cardio-Oncology Care." We invite manuscripts dealing with state-of-the-art management of common clinical cardio-oncology issues and toxicities, e.g., “How to manage pericardial effusions.” As part of a new series, we will offer expedited reviews for rapid processing.

Thomas D. Ryan, MD, PhD

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 70 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.