Bernard Fishman Professorship: Joseph R. Carver	Print Issue
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Joseph R. Carver is the inaugural holder of the Bernard Fishman Professorship and an expert in the emerging area of cardio-oncology. He also serves as director of the Penn Cardiology Fellow’s Practice in the Penn Cardiovascular Institute, chief of staff of the Abramson Cancer Center and senior administrative officer of the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute.

The Bernard Fishman Professorship was established by Mr. Fishman’s wife, Annabelle, their son, Mark and his wife, Jill, to honor Bernard’s memory. Bernard Fishman died in 2006.

“I am proud that the chair that bears the Fishman family name so perfectly marries the issues so dear to their hearts with Dr. Carver’s compassionate, visionary leadership,” said J. Larry Jameson, dean of the Perelman School of Medicine and executive vice president of the University of Pennsylvania for the Health System. “He will be able to touch even more lives as he develops a comprehensive, integrated and patient-focused cardio-oncology program poised to lead in this new field,” Dr. Jameson added.

Cardio-oncology has emerged as a new discipline in academic medicine, marrying cardio vascular medicine with oncology to manage and redesign cancer treatments that can be toxic to the heart. Dr. Carver focuses on mitigating the cardiac complications associated with cancer treatments as well as the long-term cardiac effects in cancer survivors.

Dr. Carver graduated from Temple University with a bachelor of arts degree in psychology. He earned his medical degree from Hahnemann University School of Medicine, where he also completed internship and residency training. He has been recognized in multiple years by Best Doctors in America, as well as the 2011 Top Docs issue of Philadelphia Magazine. Dr. Carver has also received the Distinguished Teacher Award in Cardiology from the Perelman School of Medicine.

He served for 10 years as corporate medical director for Aetna US Healthcare, bringing a wealth of administrative experience to his numerous roles in the Abramson Cancer Center when he arrived as a clinical professor in 2003. His clinical expertise encompasses the cardiac complications of cancer treatment, cardiac risk reduction, cardio-oncology and consultative cardiology. He has received national recognition for his insights into the treatment of cardiac disease.

Dr. Carver is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Physicians, and a member of the American Heart Association as well as fellow of its Council on Clinical Cardiology. In addition, Dr. Carver helped to lead the Cancer Cardiovascular Survivors Guidelines Taskforce for the American Society of Clinical Oncology.