Dr Suzanna  Hardman

Suzanna Hardman is a Consultant Cardiologist and the Heart Failure Lead across an integrated care organisation, Whittington Health, and Honorary Senior Lecturer at UCL.

Qualifying from UCL and UCLH, Dr Hardman's PhD and early interest in cardiac function and atrial fibrillation arose from the study of interval dependent changes in contractile function but later research has spanned natriuretic peptide usage, models of care in HF, and most recently through FP7 funding semantic-interoperability in Heart Failure.

Repeatedly elected to the Board of the British Society for Heart Failure (BSH), her current position on the Board is the immediate past Chair of the BSH. As a Board member and elsewhere, a consistent passion has been to improve the standards of heart failure (HF) care and all that follows for people with HF, through research, guideline development and other NICE initiatives, local service development including rehabilitation, HF awareness, specialist registrar training and consultant revalidation in HF, the National HF Audit, HF standards, and development of the electronic health record with emphasis on heart failure. She was/is a member of the NICE Guideline Development Groups for Chronic Heart Failure, 2010, and for Acute Heart Failure, 2014, and the related Quality Standards, 2011 and 2015, respectively.