Cardiac imaging day 5: Imaging in congenital heart disease and pregnancy

Professor Mohiaddin’s main clinical and research interest over the last 30 years has been developing and applying contemporary cross-sectional imaging techniques- particularly MRI in cardiology. His concern has been to make the best possible use of MRI's functional and anatomical information to understand congenital and acquired cardiovascular diseases and guide the diagnosis and management of patients.

Marina’s special expertise is Cardiac MRI for adults and children with congenital and inherited heart disease. She has published clinical research and has continually helped to educate junior and senior trainees. After medical school in Perth, Western Australia, Marina completed a PhD in Infectious Diseases and trained in clinical paediatrics in Oxford, UK. She then trained further in paediatric cardiology and took a post as Consultant and Echocardiography Lead at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. After moving back to the UK in 2006, Marina worked as Clinical Lead for Cardiac MRI at Great Ormond St Hospital in London, helping to build a leading service, scanning more than 1000 paediatric and adult patients with congenital heart disease per year. In 2019 Marina worked as Clinical Lead for Adult Congenital Heart Disease at Papworth Hospital. However, imaging is her passion, and since January 2021 she is concentrating on developing congenital and structural cardiac MRI services in East Anglia, both at Norwich and Peterborough. She is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of East Anglia

Dawn Adamson is an interventional cardiologist who also specialises in obstetric cardiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease.  She is also Associate Medical Director for Clinical Governance and safety at the University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire.   Having completed general medical training, she went on to gain a PhD in cardiac physiology at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College.  During this time she was the registrar for Professor Somerville and developed an interest in ACHD which has continued.  She remained in London for her specialist registrar training and worked at the Royal Brompton, St Mary’s and Hammersmith Hospitals.   Whilst in her second year of training, under the mentorship of Prof Roger Hall, she became interested in the management of heart disease in pregnancy and extended her training in order to join Prof Cathy Nelson-Piercy in Queen Charlottes one day a week.  She went on to be awarded an Interventional Fellowship at the Hammersmith hospital before taking up a joint consultant post with Queen Charlottes.  Following this she has now moved to the University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire where she has a busy interventional, obstetric cardiology practice and ACHD practice.  She has lectured both nationally and internationally on the subjects and has written the Oxford Handbook of Heart Disease in pregnancy.