Cardiovascular

Our Cardiovascular Network is working to improve care for people with, or at risk of, developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Greater Manchester.

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Clinical leads

  • Cardiovascular lead, Professor Farzin Fath-Ordoubadi, consultant cardiologist
  • Clinical lead for CVD prevention and recovery, Dr Aseem Mishra, NIHR ACF GPST4

Management team

  • Catherine Cain, senior programme lead for NHS Greater Manchester’s cardiac transformation programme
  • Ewan Jones, programme lead, NHS Greater Manchester’s CVD prevention programme
  • Kiley Haberman-Pool, project manager, CVD prevention
  • Colin Daffern, project officer
  • Adam Wallis, project officer

 

Our workstreams and clinical leadership

The Greater Manchester Cardiac Clinical Associates are a multi-disciplinary group for clinicians and key stakeholders who work within the city region’s clinical network to support NHS Greater Manchester in its ongoing workstreams to improve the quality of service and inform commissioning of health services.

The work programmes are all aligned to NHS Greater Manchester’s cardiac services strategy which you can find here (Colin add link to the final strategy document. Click here to read our Greater Manchester recovery and prevention plan.

Acute coronary syndrome/primary percutaneous coronary intervention

  • Dr Kamal Khan, clinical director/consultant interventional cardiologist
  • Dr Sanjay Sastry, consultant cardiologist and clinical head of cardiac services
  • Dr Abishek Kumar, consultant interventional cardiologist
  • Zoe Fowler, project manager

Cardiac rehabilitation

  • Susan Casnello, highly specialist cardiovascular rehabilitation nurse
  • Dr Yahya Najjar, clinical director/consultant interventional cardiologist

Diagnostics

  • Jenny Spicer, manager for cardiology, respiratory, cath lab and CDC

Heart failure

  • Toni Weldon, lead heart failure specialist nurse

Hypertension

  • Dr Aseem Mishra, NIHR ACF GPST4
  • Dr V J Karthikeyan, consultant, interventional cardiology

Lipid management

  • Dr Aseem Mishra, NIHR ACF GPST4

Out of hospital cardiac arrest

  • Neil Mackay, critical care paramedic, North West Air Ambulance
  • Matt House, consultant paramedic, North West Ambulance Service

Rhythm management

  • Eleri Roberts, advanced specialist cardiac physiologist

Advice and guidance

  • John MacDonald, consultant interventional cardiologist

 

For more information

Please email to find out more about how to get involved.