We send our congratulations to editorial board member, Dr Sarah Clarke, who has been elected the 122nd President of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP). She is the fourth woman to hold the role and has held many roles at the RCP, including, most recently, a three-year term as clinical vice-president.
Sarah is a Consultant Cardiologist and the Clinical Director of Strategic Development at the Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge. She has a particular interest in interventional cardiology and participates in Papworth’s on-call heart attack rota.
Well known nationally and internationally, Sarah is a lead on the NHS’s Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme. She is also vice-chair of the British Heart Foundation, on the board of the European Society of Cardiology, and was previously the first female president of the British Cardiovascular Society. In 2018 she was awarded a grant to attend the Women Transforming Leadership Programme at the Säid Business School in Oxford and, in the same year, was awarded the International Service Award by the President of the American College of Cardiology for her outstanding contribution to enhancing cardiovascular care and education throughout the world.
