Doctor Claire Lawson

Dr. Claire Lawson is a clinical epidemiologist and associate nurse professor with 20 years’ experience in cardiovascular clinical care, education and now research. Claire joined University of Leicester UK, as a Wellcome Trust postdoctoral research fellow in 2017 after completing a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) doctoral fellowship and PhD in Clinical Science. Claire currently holds an NIHR Advanced Fellowship within the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, where she leads a research programme using ‘big data’ to investigate heart failure epidemiology, patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) and health informatics. Her current fellowship focuses on using PROMs for dynamic prediction of hospitalisation in heart failure patients. Claire is Fellow of the HFA, secretary for the British Association for Nurses in Cardiovascular Care, an associate lecturer at Karolinska Institute, Sweden and was a task force member for the current European Heart Failure Nurse Curriculum.