A diverse leadership team empowers a group with many talents, ideas and resources.
Board of Directors
Immediate Past President, Executive Consultant
Board Member
Board Member
Board Member
Senior Lecturer
Board Certified cardiologist
Board of Directors

Dr. Susan Dent
President
Dr. Dent attended McMaster University Medical School in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and completed her residency training in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology at the Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She subsequently completed a post graduate research fellowship year in clinical trials at the Canadian Cancer Trials Group (CCTG) in Kingston.
Dr. Daniel Lenihan, MD
Immediate Past President, Executive Consultant
Dr Lenihan has been active in cardio-oncology and heart failure for over 20 years. The main focus of these efforts have included hemodynamic assessments, angiogenic growth factor response, novel cardiac biomarkers as well as optimal methods to prevent or detect heart failure at the earliest stage possible in patients undergoing treatment for cancer.


Steve Casselli
Executive Director
Steve’s background is in nonprofit leadership. He served as the Director of Admissions for a small graduate school in Philadelphia and then as the Senior Minister of a local church for twenty years in Tampa, Florida. There he met the Chairman of the ICOS Board, Dr. Eric Harrison who introduced him to the work.
Anita Arnold, MD, MBA
Director of Cardio-Oncology
Dr. Arnold graduated from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1984. She also completed her MBA at George Washington University in 2012. Anita is currently serving as Assistant Professor of Medicine, Florida State University and the Director of Cardio-Oncology.


Michael Fradley, MD
Director of Cardio-Oncology
Dr. Fradley is an attending cardiologist/electrophysiologist and Medical Director, Penn Cardio-Oncology Program and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is board certified in Cardiovascular Disease as well as Internal Medicine.
Dr. Eric Harrison MD
Chairman of the Board
Dr Harrison curates a high resolution three dimensional heart imaging database (coronary computed tomography angiogram or CCTA) of 5,000 cases and created the Sherlock Program for predicting cardiac prognosis based on plaque morphology, composition, and function to predict cardiac events.


Teresa López-Fernández, MD
Non-invasive Cardiologist
Cardio-Oncology Unit and Cardiac Imaging Unit
La Paz University Hospital: Madrid, Spain
La Paz University Hospital: Madrid, Spain
“Senior Consultant Cardiologist at La Paz University Hospital (IdiPAz Research Institute,Madrid, Spain). She leads the Cardio-Oncology Unit at La Paz University Hospital. ” Her clinical and research focuses clinical organization of multidisciplinary cardio-oncology teams, treatment and prevention of cardiovascular diseases in cancer patients and advanced cardiac imaging.
Dr. Alexander Lyon MA BM BCh PhD FRCP FHFA
Senior Lecturer
Dr. Alexander Lyon is a Senior Lecturer in Cardiology at Imperial College London and a Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital. His clinical interests are in the field of heart failure, cardio-oncology including chemotherapy cardiomyopathy and the cardiovascular complications of modern cancer therapies, Takotsubo syndrome and the effects of major stresses of the heart, and the development of novel therapeutics including gene therapy for chronic heart failure.


Joseph R. Carver, MD, FACC
Board Certified cardiologist
Joseph R. Carver, MD, FACC is a Board Certified cardiologist. He is the Founding Editor of the American Journal of Managed Care and was a Senior Corporate Medical Director at Aetna U.S. Healthcare from 1992-2001 where he was responsible for new program development and directed the National Medical Excellence Program.