BANCC Council

President Elect, Dr Claire Lawson

Term: October 2024 - October 2026 

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 cormorbidity epidemiology, patient-centred outcomes and health informatics and education.  Provision of mentorship and support for nurse academic careers.

Education Lead, Charles Spencer

Term: September 2023 - September 2025

Current Role: Associate Chief for Advanced Practice at South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, visiting lecturer at Birmingham City and Warwickshire Universities

Areas of special interest: Echocardiology and point of care ultrasound, ECG interpretation, general cardiology, advanced life support, free open access medical education (FOAMed), Facebook Cardiology Nurse Forum

Immediate Past President, Dr Helen Eftekari

Term: October 2024 - October 2026

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

Research Forum Lead, Dr Robyn Lotto

Term: October 2024 - October 2026

Current Role: Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health at Liverpool John Moores University.

Areas of special interest: Research, Heart failure, Congenital Heart Disease in the paediatric and adult populations, Cardiac Surgery, CVD risk reduction.

Honorary Secretary, Carys Barton

Term: October 2024 - October 2026

Current Role: Heart Failure Nurse Consultant, Imperial College Healthcare Trust.

Areas of special interest: Acute and chronic heart failure, supportive Pallative 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.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Fang Feng Ting

Term: October 2024 - October 2026
Current Role: Arrhythmia Specialist Nurse at Watford General Hospital-West Hertfordshire NHS Trust

Areas of special interest:  Arrhythmia related topic: palpitations; Atrial Fibrillation, supraventricular tachycardia, syncope, pacemaker, defibrillator, Cardiac-synchronised therapy; digital health; self-management; life-style modification; cardiac research; gender inequality in health, menopause and cardiovascular disease. I am particularly interested in promoting professional nurses advocator and support the cardiac nurses in their carer progression.

Treasurer, Dr Karen Higginbotham

Term: October 2024 - October 2026

Current Role: Senior Lecturer Adult Nursing in the School of Nursing and Allied Health at Liverpool John Moore University

Deputy Research Forum Officer, Hannah Waterhouse

Term: October 2024 - October 2026

Junior Secretary, Esther Arnold

Term: October 2024 - October 2026

Current Role: Cardiac Specialist Nurse at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and lecturer for the Advanced Clinical Practice Programme at Canterbury Christ Church University.

Areas of special interest: Acute Coronary Syndromes and stable angina, ECG interpretation and advanced clinical practice. I am particularly interested in career progression and development of nurses in cardiology.

Junior Treasurer, Professor Helen Walthall

Term: October 2024 - October 2026

Current Role: Director of Nursing, Midwifery and AHP Research and Innovation at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University.

Areas of special interest: Clinical Academia and Heart Failure

Ordinary Officer, Mary Harrison

1st Term: September 2023 - September 2025

Current Role: Trainee Advanced Practitioner and Clinical Academic Nurse. Seconded to undertake a full time PhD

Areas of special interest: HFpEF, women and CVD, cardio-renal-metabolic disease clusters, research, education, and nurse development

Ordinary Officer, Priya Reehal

1st Term: October 2024 - October 2026

Current Role Title: Lead Cardio-oncology/Heart Failure Clinical Nurse Specialist

Area of expertise: Cardio-Oncology and Heart Failure

Ordinary Officer, David Burnett

1st Term: October 2024 - October 2026

Current Role: Nurse Consultant in Cardiology

Area of expertise: Chest Pain and Acute Coronary Syndromes, Secondary Prevention and Lipid Management

Ordinary Officer and BACPR Representative, Janine O’Rourke

1st Term: October 2024 - October 2026

Current Role: Cardiac Rehabilitation Specialist Nurse Lead

Area of expertise: Cardiac Rehabilitation, Heart Failure, Secondary Prevention Management and Angina

Co-opted/Non-Voting Members

Royal College of Nursing Representative, Sharlene Hogan

Current Role: Sharlene works within a Contracted Research Organization (CRO), supporting global commercial drug and device clinical studies.

Areas of interest: Global Clinical Research, Arrhythmia Nursing, Invasive Cardiology, Lower gastrointestinal surgery, non-medical prescribing and complex surgical and medical management of patients

Primary Care Cardiovascular Representative, Beverley Bostock

Current Role: Advanced Nurse Practitioner and Primary Care Cardiovascular Representative President Elect

Areas of interest: Long term conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease including heart failure, AF, hypertension and lipid management. As well as chronic kidney disease, MASLD, asthma & COPD and nurse prescribing.

British Heart Foundation Representative, Chloe MacArthur

Current Role: Helpline Nurse Lead