Research and Audit committee

The Research and Audit committee aims to deliver a portfolio of primary research in echocardiography, support educational resources for research and contribute to national audits and innovation projects.

The committee is responsible for:

  • Designing and delivering primary echocardiography research (observational cohorts and trials)
  • Undertaking and presenting clinical audits of practice and measurements
  • Ensuring mentorship for anyone seeking a clinical academic career
  • Proactively sharing educational resources related to research and audit

Shumaila Ahmad

Member

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Daniel X Augustine

Member

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Gemma Bassindale

Member

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Sadie Bennett

Member

Sadie is an NIHR pre-doctoral clinical academic fellow with experience in clinical audits, service evaluation, case reports, observational research studies and systematic reviews. She has experience in presenting research abstracts/posters at conferences and has been the lead or co-author on peer reviewed publications. She is interested in transthoracic echocardiography, stress echocardiography, 3D, strain and myocardial work, valvular heart disease, heart failure, pulmonary hypertension and gender health inequalities.

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Brian Campbell

Member

Brian Campbell successfully completed his BSc (Hons) from the University of Ulster (UU) in 2000. In the same year he presented his undergraduate research at the national Irish Cardiac Society conference taking first place in oral abstracts. He subsequently undertook his PhD in tissue Doppler echocardiology and diastology at UU / Belfast City Hospital. He is fully accredited in adult and congenital TTE and adult TOE. He is currently the Head of Training in Echocardiography at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS foundation Trust and lead for bubbles study service and TOE. His special interests are in physiologist-led services and has published several papers in physiologist-led services.

Timothy Fairbairn

Member

Tim is a Consultant Cardiologist with a specialist interest in imaging and a Medical Research Council CARP Fellow. His research is focused on cardiovascular imaging, big data, artificial intelligence and the development of new health technologies into the healthcare system. As chief investigator of the FISH and CHIPS study he has determined the impact of CT FFR as a diagnostic tool in real world practice, utilizing NHS digital derived clinical outcomes from large national datasets (5 million recorded hospital episodes). They are developing new AI tools and collaborating with 2 healthcare industrial partners to improve coronary plaque quantification software. He has an international reputation as a key opinion leader and expert on CTFFR. He is a Society for Cardiovascular CT (SCCT) guidelines committee member and a Journal for Cardiovascular CT (JCCT) associate editor. He is a NICE technology adoption panel member, NICE diagnostic advisory committee member and the NHS England clinical lead for a national pilot on CariHeart technology. He is NIHR associate director for the research scholar programme as well as a British Heart Foundation (BHF) Translational Grant Award panel member. He is on the British Society of Echocardiography (BSE) Research and Audit Committee and is an EACVI CT working group and accreditation board member. <br/>

Andrew Fletcher

Member

Andrew is a Clinical Scientist at Royal Papworth Hospital and the NHS England regional training lead for Echo for the East of England. He is undertaking a PhD focussing on improving the Echo diagnosis of diastolic dysfunction and identification of heart failure and is part of the Oxford Research Echo Core Lab (ORECL) at the University of Oxford with experience of coding in Python, R and Matlab. His research interests include Heart Failure, Pulmonary-hypertension, 3D, Strain, Diastology, Exercise-echo, machine-learning and big-data.

Lynsey Forsythe

Member

Haotian Gu

Member

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Hazem Lashin

Member

Hazem is a cardiothoracic intensive care medicine consultant at Barts Heart Centre in London. He is keenly interested in critical care echocardiography and is accredited by the British Society of Echocardiography. Hazem is actively involved in critical care echocardiography research and the application of contrast echocardiography in intensive care.

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Peter Lee Luke

Member

Peter is a lecturer in Clinical Physiology at Newcastle University and a Clinical Scientist based at Newcastle Hospitals NHS trust. His areas of interest include strategies and techniques that enhance audit engagement, the role of AI in echocardiography (including GLS & Myocardial Work) and overcoming potential barriers when performing research in clinical practice.

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David L Oxborough

Member

Maria Paton

Chair

Shaun Robinson

Member

Alexandra Savis

Member

Alex is a career echocardiographer, beginning in adult echo and now working in fetal and paediatric echocardiography performing both TOE and TTE exams. She works across all four pillars of professional echocardiography practice - clinical, educational, research and leadership. She is reasonably new to a career in research. She began by collating and measuring echo data for publication, progressing to managing the departmental commercial research echocardiograms and physiologist-led research. She has been both a contributing author and first-authored peer-reviewed and non-peer reviewed publications. She is actively looking at ways in which echocardiographers can be involved in research and gain mentorship and a network to pursue a career or a career interest in research. Her interests primarily lie in bringing research more to the forefront of echocardiographers careers for career progression and reinvigoration and for developing strategies to do this; increasing inclusion, such that echocardiographers are empowered and have the ‘tool kit’ to enable them to publish their high-quality work in some format, across all level centres, from a case study to first-authoring a peer-reviewed paper. <br/>

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Malgorzata Wamil

Member

James Willis

Member

James is a clinical scientist with a research background in right ventricular assessment and pulmonary hypertension, contributing to national guidelines and emerging novel research areas in both. He is currently involved with the BSE NSTEP project looking at workforce development in stress echocardiography and he is also working on novel markers for the echocardiographic assessment of pulmonary hypertension. His particular research interests include pulmonary hypertension, measurement reproducibility, strain, right ventricular 3D assessment and stress echocardiography.