Speaking at: HRC2024

Position: Clinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist
Location: Glasgow, UK

Rachel is a clinician-scientist interested in ventricular arrhythmia mechanisms. She is Clinical Senior Lecturer in the School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health at the University of Glasgow, and an Honorary Consultant Cardiologist in the West of Scotland Inherited Cardiac Conditions (WoSICC) Service. Having trained in Oxford, London, Edinburgh, Glasgow and California Rachel became a consultant in 2016 and started her own experimental research lab at the University of Glasgow, supported by a Wellcome Trust Fellowship. Her group’s research focuses on understanding the expression of cellular behaviour and cell-cell heterogeneity in the whole heart, and how these are involved in mechanisms of ventricular arrhythmia post-MI, in heart failure and in long QT syndrome, with the aim of identifying novel therapeutic targets and better risk stratification tools for patients at risk of sudden arrhythmic death. Rachel’s clinical expertise is in the inherited arrhythmia syndromes and management of arrhythmias across inherited cardiac conditions. Through WoSICC and the national Network for Inherited Cardiac Conditions Scotland (NICCS), Rachel is involved in developing regional and national pathways for investigating sudden cardiac deaths, cardiac arrest, and management of inherited arrhythmia syndromes during pregnancy.