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The Heart to Heart podcast shines the spotlight on Canadian cardiologists who are changing the way that care is being delivered. The series features leading experts and young rising stars engaging in conversations about innovations, challenges, and opportunities for improvement. The Spotlight on the Next Generation 5-part series brought to you by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, sheds light on some of the disadvantages that non-white patients experience and how Canadian experts are working to solve some of these issues through their leadership, care, and commitment. In this series, the spotlight is on early career leaders as they share their experiences during conversations with global experts. In the Spotlight on Canadian Innovations in Heart Failure Management 7-part series, Dr. Abhinav Sharma discusses with various Canadian experts about innovative protocols and initiatives that they have led to improve outcomes for patients with heart failure and ensure that their treatments are truly optimized. This series of short interviews will provide you with some insights into what your peers are doing to modernize heart failure care across the country. This program was made possible with support from Novartis Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc.
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Wednesday Jan 13, 2021
Wednesday Jan 13, 2021
In this episode, Dr. Husam Abdel-Qadir, Cardiologist and Scientist at Women’s College Hospital, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto and Adjunct Scientist, ICES – together with & Dr. Dinesh Thavendiranathan, Cardiologist and Scientist at Toronto General Hospital, Associate Professor of Medicine and Clinical Investigator and, Director of the Ted Rogers Program in Cardiotoxicity Prevention discuss the importance for all general cardiologists to develop expertise in cardio-oncology.
There is an increasing need to treat patients who have concomitant cardiovascular disease and cancer, and to care for patients who develop cardiotoxicity following cancer treatment. Considering that cardio-vascular disease is the second leading competing cause of death in cancer survivors, cardio-oncology is a field that can be embraced by community cardiologists in addition to expert cardiologists in urban academic settings.
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