Rachel Bastiaenen

Rachel is a consultant cardiologist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals and clinical director for the cardiovascular directorate. She is an honorary senior lecturer at King’s College London. She specialises in inherited cardiac disease and cardiac MRI.

Her PhD research involved non-invasive risk stratification of patients with cardiomyopathy. She has presented her work at national and international conferences and has a series of publications in peer reviewed journals. She has ongoing research interests in inherited arrhythmia syndromes.

She is a council member and Treasurer for the national Association for Inherited Cardiac Conditions (AICC) and clinical co-lead for rare disease in the regional South East Genomic Medicine Service.