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Dr Sarah Birkhoelzer Sarah is a Heart Failure and Imaging Fellow, (University Hospitals Dorset) and specialises in heart failure and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). As part of her PhD at the University of Oxford, she examined cardiac and skeletal muscle metabolism in heart failure. She completed a research fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA, under Dr Scott Solomon, Professor of Medicine at Harvard University Medical School. She is the UK Heart Failure Association (HFA) Young Ambassador and serves on the British Cardiovascular Society Practice & Guidelines and Women in Cardiology Committees, as well as the Europea

The partnership acknowledges the challenge posed by heart failure as the end point for most cardiovascular disease and reflects the increasing burden it places directly and indirectly on our health systems and community. There are currently nearly one million people living with heart failure in the UK. Many more may be undiagnosed. Together the BJC and BSH will raise further awareness and provide a platform for doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals to engage with the public health challenges of diagnosing and treating those with heart failure optimally. BSH Chair, Dr Simon Williams, Consultant Cardiologist (Wythenshawe Hospital,

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