Tootie (Teofila) is the Chief Nurse at the North Thames Genomic Medicine Service Alliance (GMSA) and Director for Nursing & Midwifery at Southeast GMSA. Prior to this she was Associate Director of Clinical Research at St Bartholomew's Hospital and Lead Nurse for Inherited Cardiac Conditions at Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital & King's College Hospital. She completed her PhD at King’s College London as an NIHR/HEE Clinical Doctoral Fellow. Tootie is a member of the Chief Nursing Officer of England’s council on shared professional decision making for research and an alumnus of the NIHR70@70 Nurse Research Leadership Programme. She is on the editorial board of the British Journal of Cardiac Nursing and a Trustee at Cardiomyopathy UK. Tootie is the Nurse Representative on the Association for Inherited Cardiac Conditions Council and a past President for the British Association for Nursing in Cardiovascular Care and was the inaugural Chair of the Research Forum.