Professor Lisa Anderson

Role and place of work: Consultant Cardiologist, St George’s Hospital, London. Past Chair: British Society for Heart Failure. Chair: NHS England Heart Failure Expert Advisory Group Clinical expert for UK NICE Technology Appraisals (TA10946, TA10942, TA388) and for the BMA Expert Review Group for TA267. Research Interests: V122I TTR cardiac amyloid, cardiorenal HF, acute HF. Prof. Anderson wrote the proposal for the National Confidential Enquiry (NCEPOD) into deaths in Acute Heart Failure (2018). Subspecialty: Cardiac Magnetic Resonance. Prof. Anderson developed T2* imaging for the detection of cardiac iron, and the original publication remains one of the most highly cited in the field. The T2* sequence has since become the international standard and is now implemented on CMR scanners from all major vendors worldwide.