Advanced imaging 2023: Pericardial disease

Professor S Yen Ho specialises in anatomy of congenital heart disease and in anatomy relevant to cardiac arrhythmias and interventions. Her work includes morphological correlates with cardiac imaging, surgery, interventions, and electrophysiology.

Annually, she organizes and provides several short courses including Morphology of congenital heart malformations, Effective prenatal screening for congenital heart defects, Intervention in structural heart defects, and on Anatomy for electrophysiologists.

To date, she has written/co-written >490 research papers, numerous book chapters, and 13 books including Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Disease made simple and Atlas of Real Time 3D Transesophageal Echocardiography.

Dr Julia Grapsa is a consultant cardiologist at St Thomas Hospital and associate professor at King's College London. She is also a fellow for the Royal College of Physicians. Dr Grapsa’s areas of research include valvular heart disease and the study of right heart remodelling. During her PhD research, Dr Grapsa studied the right heart remodelling in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension with echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance.

Dr Grapsa has served as chair of the young community for multimodality imaging for the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging and as a member of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) education committee, leading the ESC clinical case gallery. She was responsible for ESC social media, since its birth and she has been a member of imaging and online education committees of Heart Failure Association.