Diego Sadler, MD

• Head, Cardio Oncology section, Cleveland Clinic Florida 2016-present
• President Elect Medical Staff, JFK Hospital, 2012-2013
• Chief of Staff, JFK Medical Center, 2014- 2015.
• Credentials Committee Chairman, JFK Hospital, 2012-2013
• Medical Executive Committee, JFK Hospital, 2004-2005, 2012-Present
• Board of Trustees, JFK Medical Center, 2012-2015
• Chairman Peer Review JFK Medical Center, 2016-2017
• Cardio-Vascular Co-Management Group, Governance Board member, Good Samaritan Medical Center.2013-2014

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:

• Clinical Assistant Professor of Cardio-Vascular Medicine.
• Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University. 2017-present.
• Associate Professor promotion application approved by CCLCM. Pending CWRU final approval (early 2022)
• Cleveland Clinic Educators Collaborative. January 2020-2024.
• Affiliate Clinical Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Biomedical Science, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, 2009-2012.
• Voluntary Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, 2009-2016

TEACHING ACTIVITIES:

• Instructor of Medicine, teaching internal medicine residents and students, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA 1995-1997
• Teaching rounds and lectures, internal medicine residents JFK Medical Center, Lake Worth, FL. 2007-2012
• Teaching rounds cardiology fellows, JFK Medical Center, Lake Worth, FL 2012-2015
• Cardio Oncology teaching for staff, nurses, residents Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL 2016-present
• Cardio Oncology Grand Rounds Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Oncology: Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL 2017-2020
• Inpatient teaching rounds Cardiology Service with medical students, residents and cardiology fellows, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL 2020-present
• Preceptorship of Oncology Research fellows’ rotation in Cardio Oncology. Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL 2020, 2021.
• Supervision cardiology research fellow in cardio-oncology. Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL 2021-present.

INVITED LECTURES:

• Speaker/panelist: American College of Cardiology: CV care of the cancer patient. February 2022. How to start and sustain a cardio-oncology program. February 2022
• Invited speaker: Cardiovascular effects of immune check point inhibitors. Current knowledge and future perspectives. Ecuadorian Society of Cardiology. November 2021
• Speaker and panelist: American College of Cardiology, California Chapter July 2021: “How to start and grow a Cardio-Oncology Program”
• Featured Invited Faculty Speaker Argentine Society of Cardiology Cardio-Oncology Symposium August 2021: Past, present and future of Cardio Oncology
• Speaker: International Cardio Oncology Society Webinar: Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic in Cardio Oncology practice. September 2020
• Speaker: Argentine Society of Cardiology (SAC) 49th Congress (virtual): “How to establish a Cardio Oncology Program” (lecture), and speaker/panelist on “Practice tips in Cardio oncology”.
• Invited speaker: State of Cardio Oncology in the World. 3rd International Argentine Symposium in Cardio Oncology (virtual), September 2020
• Session Co-Chair: towards a comprehensive cardiac-cancer care International Symposium by Israel Society of Cardio Oncology (Virtual) January 2021
• American College of Cardiology: CV care of the Cancer patient: Faculty presentation on multi state project. Washington DC, January 2020
• SAC 2019: three presentations in Cardio Oncology: 50th Argentine Congress of Cardiology. Buenos Aires, October 2019.
• Cardiovascular effects of Immunotherapy. September 2019 Cardiology Congress of Panama
• Breast Cancer management for cardiovascular specialists. September 2019 Cardiology Congress of Panama.
• Breast Cancer and Heart Disease: speaker at Florida ACC Chapter Winter meeting, Orlando, FL January 2019.
• Cardio Oncology INCOR cardiovascular Imaging Congress, Lima, Peru, September 2018
• Cardio Oncology and Strain Imaging presentations, Cleveland Clinic Diastology and Structural Heart disease national conference, Ft, Lauderdale, March 2018
• Cardio Oncology presentations in Guatemala Cardiovascular Conference, April 2018.
• Grand Rounds in Cardio Oncology. Cleveland Clinic Florida July 2016, 2018, 2019.
• Oncology Board Rounds in Cardio Oncology, Good Samaritan Med Center, WPB, August 2016
• Cardio Oncology Grand Rounds, Indian River Medical Center, October 2017.

Poster presentations:

• Global Cardio Oncology Registry: structure for a multinational collaboration. American Heart Association November 2021
• Starting and Sustaining a Cardio Oncology Program: Practical Model to Succeed Utilizing Existing Resources at your institution, “Advancing the Cardiovascular Care of the Oncology patient”, ACC, Washington DC, January 2019
• Cardio Oncology awareness among Cardiologists and Oncologists in Florida: Survey from the Florida Chapters of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Work Group. Global Cardio Oncology Summit 2019, Sao Paulo Brazil, October 2019.
• Starting a Cardio Oncology Program: a simple approach for rapid Growth”. Global Cardio-Oncology Summit 2018, Tampa, FL, September 2018.
• "Effects of diabetes with or without hypertension in the genesis of left ventricular hypertrophy in the rat." 45th Annual Scientific Session. American College of Cardiology. Orlando (Fla), March 1996.
• "Hypertensives with concentric remodeling have depressed chamber, pump and myocardial function in the absence of left ventricular hypertrophy." 68th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association. Anaheim, California. November 1995.
• "Role of Transesophageal echocardiography in the assessment of non-hemorrhagic stroke". 15th Congress of the European Society of Cardiology. Nice, France. September 1993.
• "Is computed tomography useful in identifying stroke patients with a positive transesophageal
• Echocardiography study?" 65th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association. New Orleans, Louisiana. November 1992.
• "Is transesophageal echocardiography useful in the routine assessment of patients after non-hemorrhagic cerebrovascular events". Third Annual Scientific Sessions. American Society of Echocardiography. Boston, Massachusetts. June 1992.
• "Left and right ventricular diastolic filling indexes in systemic hypertension: relationship to left ventricular mass". Seventh scientific meeting of The American Society of Hypertension. New York, NY. May 1992.
• "Left atrial thrombi in non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation: Assessment of prevalence by transesophageal echocardiography". 64th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association. Anaheim, California. November 1991.
• "Left Ventricular mass-diastolic filling abnormalities relationship in systemic hypertension". XIII Congress of the European Society of Cardiology. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. August 1991.
• "Impact of hemodialysis on left and right ventricular Doppler diastolic filling indices". Annual Scientific Sessions. American Federation for Clinical Research. Seattle, WA. May 1991.
• "Detection of intra-cardiac source of embolism by transesophageal echocardiography in stroke patients". 40th Annual Scientific Session. American College of Cardiology. Atlanta, Ga. March 1991.phy

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1. Sadler D, Chaugalian C, Cubeddu R, Stone E, Samuel T, et al. Practical and Cost effective Model to build and sustain a Cardio-Oncology Program. Cardio Oncology Journal. 2020 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40959-020-00063-x (doi: 10.1186/s40959-020-00063-x)

2. Sadler D, Fradley M, Ismail Khan R, Raez L, Bhandare D, Elson L, Perloff D, et al. Florida Inter-Specialty Collaborative Project to improve Cardio Oncology Awareness and Identify Existing Gaps. JACC Cardio Onc Sept 2020, 2 (3) 535-538

3. Sadler D, DeCara J, Herrmann J, Arnold A, Ghosh A,Abdel-Quadir H, Yang E, Smith S, Ahter N, Leja M, Carvalho Silva C, Raikhelkar J, Brown SA, Dent S, O’Quinn R, Thuny F, Moudgil R, Raez L, Okwuosa T, Daniele A, Bauer B, Kondapalli L,Ismail-Khan R, Lax J, Blaes A, Nahleh Z, Elson L, Baldassarre L, Zaha V, Rao V, Sierra Lara D, Skurka K. COVID-19 Pandemic and its impact on Cardio Oncology: Results from the COVID-19 International Collaborative Network Survey. Cardio Oncology Journal. November 2020. 6 (28)

4. Sadler D, Arnold A, Herrmann J, et al. Reaching across the Aisle. Cardio Oncology Advocacy and Program Building. Current Oncology Reports. April 2021. (2021) 23:64 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11912-021-01059-1

5. Scuchan BS, Elson L, Alley E, Leung K, Lewis Camargo A, Eliminian E, Sadler D. Checkpoint inhibitor-

induced myocarditis and myasthenia gravis in a recurrent metastatic thymic carcinoma patient. European Heart Journal CR (4):3 June 2020. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjcr/ytaa051

6. Bilani, N, Elson L, Alley E, Eliminan E, Sadler D. A Multimodal Approach to Evaluate for Cardiac Metastasis in a Case of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. CR Case Rep Oncol 2020;13:212-218. doi: 10.1159/000505534

7. Kwan J, Henry M, Christophers B, Sadler D, Cheng R, Purwani P, Dent S, Fradley M, Brown SA. The role and impact of social media in Cardio-Oncology During the COVID-19 pandemic. Current Oncology Reports. July 2021 (2021) 23:99 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11912-021-01081-3

8. Sadler D: Book Chapter. Atlas of imaging in Cardio Oncology. Chapter Cardio Oncology in the Community. September 2021. Atlashttps://www.springer.com/978-3-030-70997-6 DOI 978-3-030-70998-3_30, © 2021

9. Sadler D, Moudgil R, Teske A, Collier P, Sarkar A, Barac A, Brown SA, Herrmann J. Global Cardio Oncology Registry: structure for a multinational collaboration. Circulation 2021;144A 11675

10. Sadler D, Aurigemma GP, Reda D, Williams DW, Gottdiener JS. Systolic function is depressed in hypertensive men with concentric remodeling. Hypertension 1997; 30:777-81.

11. Sadler D, Chung E, Meyer T, Rossini A, Gaasch WH, Aurigemma GP. Effects of diabetes with or without hypertension in the genesis of left ventricular hypertrophy in the rat. J Amer Coll Cardiol 1996; 27: 35 A

12. Klein AL, Carneiro M, Murray D, Pape L, Sadler D, Grimm R, Stewart WJ, Thomas JD. Influence of mitral regurgitation and left ventricular systolic dysfunction on pulmonary venous flow in patients with atrial arrhythmias. A Doppler TEE study of 110 patients.

J Amer Coll Cardiol 1996; 27: 349 A

13. Sadler D, Aurigemma GP, Williams DW, Reda D, Gottdiener JS, Materson B. Hypertensives with concentric remodeling have depressed chamber, pump and myocardial function in the absence of left ventricular hypertrophy. Circulation 1995; 92 : Suppl I-268.

14. Aurigemma GP, Sharma M, Sadler D, Meyer TE, Gaasch WH. Extent and velocity of shortening provide similar information about chamber and myocardial function in hypertrophic and normal hearts. Circulation 1995; 92 : Suppl I-668.

14. Aurigemma GP, Chung ES, Sadler D, Gaasch WH, Meyer T. Left ventricular geometry, systolic function, and adrenergic responsiveness in rats with pressure overload hypertrophy. Circulation 1995; 92 : Suppl I-668.

15. Meyer TE, Chung E, Dobson J, Aurigemma GP, Sadler D, Gaasch WH. Adenosine uptake blockade accelerates the transition from compensated to decompensated left ventricular hypertrophy. Circulation 1995; 92 : Suppl I-26.

16. Sherzoy A, Sadler D, Brown J. Cocaine-related acute aortic dissection diagnosed by transesophageal echocardiography. Am Heart J 1994; 4 : 841-43.

17. Brown J, Sadler D. Assessment of left atrial thrombi in non rheumatic atrial fibrillation. A transesophageal echocardiography study. Int J Card Imag 1993 ; 9 : 65-72.

18. Sadler D, Brown J, Sherzoy A. Role of transesophageal echocardiography in the assessment of non-hemorrhagic stroke. Eur Heart J 1993 ; 14 :A 436

19. Brown J, Sadler D. Transesophageal Echocardiography. Developments in Cardiology 1992; 2 : -15.

20. Sadler D, Brown J, Nurse H, Roberts J: Impact of hemodialysis on Left and Right Ventricular Doppler Diastolic Filling Indices. Am J Med Sci 1992; 304 (2): 83-90.

21. Sadler D, Brown J, McCleary M, Stein J: Is Computed Tomography useful in identifying stroke patients with a positive transesophageal echocardiographic study? Circulation 1992; 86 : I-147

22. Sadler D, Brown J, Branche G, Streets M, Roberts J. Left and right ventricular diastolic filling indexes in systemic hypertension: relationship to left ventricular mass. Am J Hypert 1992; 5 : 27 A.

23. Sadler D, Brown J, Prothro D. Is transesophageal echocardiography useful in the routine assessment of patients after non-hemorrhagic events?. J Am Soc Echocardiography 1992 ; 5:308.

24. Sadler D, Brown J, Branche G, Streets M, Roberts J. Left Ventricular mass-diastolic filling abnormalities relationship in systemic hypertension. Eur Heart J 1991;12 Suppl A: 58.

25. Sadler D, Brown J, Islam M, Patel P, Prothro D. Left atrial thrombi in non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation: Assessment of prevalence by transesophageal echocardiography. Circulation 1991; Suppl II-693.

26. Sadler D, Brown J, Chandrashekar PS, Shafer S. Detection of intracardiac source of embolism by transesophageal echocardiography in stroke patients. J Amer Coll Cardiol 1991; 17 : 315 A.

27. Sadler D, Brown J, Nurse H, Francis CK. Impact of hemodialysis on left and right ventricular Doppler diastolic filling indices. Clin Res 1991; 39 : 233 A.

28. Shaukat M, Sadler D, Hoffman RA, Johnson J, Sackner MA. Thoracocardiography: A non-invasive means to assess cardiac loading. Am Rev Resp Dis 1990 ; 141: A 576.

29. Sadler D, Staszewsky L, Ortiz J, Paviotti C, Bazzino O. 2-D Echocardiogram in Acute Myocardial Infarction: Prognostic value for the first year of follow up. Rev Argent Cardiol 1987; 55 : S 75.

30. Ortiz J, Sadler D, Staszewsky L, Panza J, Bazzino O. 2-D Echocardiogram in Acute Myocardial Infarction: It's correlation with the Electrocardiogram. Rev Argent Cardiol 1987; 55: S 74.

31. Trivi M, Bazzino O, Arenzo J, Sadler D. Silent and symptomatic Ischemia in Unstable Angina. Rev Argent

• Honor Degree (Dean’s list), issued by University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine.
• American College of Cardiology Board of Governors: Chapter Section Grant award for Cardio Oncology Education/Advocacy with Florida Chapter and ACC Cardio Oncology Council. January 2019
• American College of Cardiology Florida Chapter: 2020 Distinguished Service Award.
• International Cardio-Oncology Society Center of Excellence Gold status designation (higher designation) 2021-2024

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