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Council Officers  | Liz Butterfield President
Term: September 2020 - September 2022
Current Role: Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing Midwifery and Social Work, Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, Canterbury Christ Church University.
Areas of special interest: Cardiac Arrhythmias, heart failure, acute care in nursing, ACS and rehabilitation. |
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|  | Helen Eftekhari President ElectTerm: September 2020 - September 2022
Current Role: British Heart Foundation Nursing PhD Fellow at University of Warwick and Cardiology Nurse Researcher University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire.
Areas of Special Interest: Arrhythmia/Electro, Cardiomyopathy, Heart Failure, Echocardiography, Research, Pacing, Valvular Heart Disease. |
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|  | Dr Tootie Bueser Research Forum Lead
Term: September 2021 - September 2022
Current Role: Associate Director for Clinical Research, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London
Areas of special interest: Inherited arrhythmias and cardiomyopathies, genetic neuromuscular diseases which have a major impact on the cardiovascular system. |
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|  | Nicola Bowers Honorary SecretaryTerm: September 2020 - September 2022
Current Role: Senior Cardiac Research Nurse for Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.
Areas of special interest: For research nurses to be an integral member of every healthcare division. Introducing, supporting and completing clinical trials to increase national research activity and promote evidence based practice. Through collaborative working and dissemination of information, reduce cardiovascular disease locally, nationally and globally. |  | Adam Damianopoulos Treasurer Term: September 2019 - September 2022
Current Role: Clinical Site Manager - Barts Heart Centre, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust.. Areas of Special Interest: Acute Coronary Syndromes, primary and secondary prevention of CVD heart failure and post-registration education. |  | Dr Claire Lawson Junior Secretary
Term: September 2020 - September 2022
Current Role: Advanced NIHR Research Fellow and Nurse Lecturer, University of Leicester
Areas of special interest: The collection, linkage and analysis of routine data to investigate heart failure and comorbidity epidemiology, patient-centred outcomes and health informatics and education. Provision of mentorship and support for nurse academic careers. |  | Dr Lizelle Bernhardt Junior Treasurer Term: December 2019 - September 2022 Current Role: Heart Failure Specialist Nurse, Leicestershire Partnership NHS trust, Leicester/CLAHRC PhD Student, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester. Areas of special interest: Heart Failure, sleep disordered breathing as comorbidity in chronic heart failure, raising the profile of nurse-led cardiovascular research, clinical academic role in cardiovascular nursing. |
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| Carys Barton
1st Term: September 2021 - September 2023
Current Role: Heart Failure Nurse Consultant, Imperial College Healthcare Trust.
Areas of special interest: Acute and chronic heart failure, supportive Palliative Care in Heart Failure, I am committed to supporting the education and development of specialist nurses and their services. My goal is to ensure equitable, consistent and excellent standards of care. |
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| Soraya Nuthoo 1st Term: September 2020 - September 2022
Current Role: Cardiac Genetic Nurse, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Areas of special interest: Cardiomyopathies, Inherited Cardiac Arrhythmias and Heart Failure
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| Dr Robyn Lotto
1st Term: September 2021 - September 2023
Current Role: Senior Lecturer in the Facility of Health at Liverpool John Moores University
Areas of special interest: Research, Heart Failure, Congential Heart Diseases in the paediatric and adult populations, Cardiac Survey, CVD risk reduction | Co-opted/Non-voting Members
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|  | Andrew Richardson BANCC Educational Advisor
Current Role: Lecturer in Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton.
Areas of special interest: Primary and Secondary prevention of CVD, resuscitation, behavioural cardiology. |
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| Suman Shrestha MSc, BSc, RN Royal College of Nursing
Current Role: Professional Lead for Acute, Emergency and Critical Care at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) He also works as a Consultant Nurse in Critical Care at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. He is a qualified Advanced Critical Care Practitioner and Associate Member of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.
Areas of interest: Advanced Nursing Practice, Sepsis, Critical Care, out of hospital cardiac arrest, management of deteriorating patient, patient safety.
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HOW TO CONTACT BANCC | All council members can be contacted by email: bancc@bcs.com | | For any administrative queries or information requests, please contact: |
| Val Collins | Affiliates Coordinator BANCC c/o The British Cardiovascular Society 9 Fitzroy Square London W1T 5HW | Telephone: +44 (0)20 7380 1919 / +44 (0)20 7383 3887 |
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