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Women’s Clinical Advisory Group
Patient Advocate Group
Our Women’s Clinical Advisory Group is dedicated to addressing the significant gender disparities in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of heart valve disease, particularly aortic stenosis. Despite cardiovascular disease being the leading cause of death among women in the UK, standard approaches often overlook the unique physiological and cultural differences in women, leading to delayed or inaccurate diagnoses. Our Women’s Clinical Advisory Group is committed to developing gender-specific pathways and advocating for systemic changes in healthcare to ensure timely and accurate treatment for women.
Dr Tiffany Patterson
Dr Tiffany Patterson is a Consultant Cardiologist in Structural and Coronary Intervention at Guys and St Thomas’. Dr Pattersson is the lead for the mitral and tricuspid programme at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and works in the structural intervention service to provide heart valve replacement and repair procedures that aren't available elsewhere in the UK.
Dr Alison Duncan
Dr Alison Duncan is the lead interventional echocardiologist at Royal Brompton Hospital for transcatheter aortic, mitral and tricuspid interventions. She has guided over 1,200 TAVI, 150 Mitral treatments and 30 transventricular mitral procedures as well as 28 transcatheter mitral valve interventions.
Ms Betsy Evans
Ms Betsy Evans is a Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust. When she first took up the post, she was just the seventh woman in the UK and Ireland with the title. Ms Evans’ clinical interests are aortic surgery, endovascular approaches to the thoracic aorta and transcatheter aortic valve implantation.
Dr Mamta Buch
Dr Mamta Buch is a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist (Structural and Coronary) at Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT). She was appointed in 2011 and leads the transcatheter heart valve services. She contributes to national and international interventional cardiology meetings, is a member of the BCIS structural heart intervention Working Group, the BCS Practice & Guidelines Committee and is a Clinical Senate council member.
Dr Claire Appleby
Dr Clare Appebly is an interventional cardiologist at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK. Dr Appleby is an Honorary Secretary of the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society (from Jan 2020). Dr Appleby sits on the council of Valve for Life UK and is a leading thinker on gender inequalities in access to valve treatment in the UK.
Karen Wilson
Karen Wilson is a highly experienced Consultant Nurse with a deep expertise in structural heart disease. She has played a pivotal leadership role within the nursing workforce, ensuring that excellent patient care is consistently achieved. Karen is dedicated to developing services with patients at the centre of every decision, utilising advanced nursing skills, including physical examination and non-medical prescribing, to enhance the patient journey and experience.
Kerry Pena
Kerry Pena has been the cardiac valve nurse specialist since 2014 at Leeds General Infirmary. She takes pride in managing the daily activities of the structural valve service and ensures that efficient clinical care pathways are delivered in one of the busiest and largest TAVI centres in the UK. She believes that strong collaboration and effective communication within the multidisciplinary team is key to ensuring her patient remains the focus in the delivery of care.
Dr Ee Ling Heng
Dr Ee Ling Heng is a Consultant Cardiologist at Guys St Thomas’ who has clinical expertise encompassing adult congenital heart disease, structural heart disease as well as general cardiology. Dr Heng has a special interest in structural and adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) interventional minimally invasive procedures.
Dr Joe Shannon
Dr Shannon is the lead for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) at Frimley Health, where she has set up a TAVi service linked with the Royal Brompton. She has expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of heart valve disease, particularly the aortic valve and is one of only two TAVI operators at the Brompton.
Dr Shrilla Banerjee
Dr Shrilla Banerjee is a Consultant Cardiologist at Surrey and Sussex Trust with a special interest in Intervention. She trained at the University of Birmingham and then completed postgraduate training in London. Her MD was in Cardiovascular Epidemiology (University of London) and papers from it were published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the world’s foremost medical journal.
Policy Work
Overview
Aims and Objectives
Guidelines and Reports
APPG
Clinical Advisory Panel
NICE Guidelines Patient Consultation Group
