Course homepage
Session 2: Hidden in heart fai
lure: Inherited cardiac conditions
Wednesday, 23 April 2025
View the recording
Agenda
- When to consider inherited causes of heart failure: top tips and red flags
Prof Gerry Carr-White, Consultant Cardiologist and Clinical Lead, heart failure, and inherited diseases
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust - Screening for inherited cardiomyopathies: clinical and genetic testing
Dan Hammersley, Consultant Cardiologist, inherited cardiac conditions and CMR
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Genomic testing in heart failure: when and how?
Liz Wilson, Lead Nurse, inherited cardiac conditions
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Q&A session (10 mins)
Rachel Bastiaenen 
Rachel is a Consultant Cardiologist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust where she is the Clinical Lead for Inherited Cardiac Conditions. She is also an Honorary Senior Lecturer at King’s College London.
She studied at Peterhouse Cambridge and Imperial College London. She completed Cardiology training in the London Deanery and a fellowship in Vancouver. Her PhD was awarded from St George’s University of London and involved non-invasive risk stratification of patients with cardiomyopathy. Her clinical and research interests focus on inherited arrhythmia syndromes, cardiomyopathies and cardiac MRI.