Dr Tracey Bowden, a Senior Lecturer in Cardiac Care and Adult Nursing, joined the Nursing Department at City, University of London in 2005 from full-time NHS practice. She is an early career researcher, having been awarded her PhD in 2023. Alongside her Senior Lecturer post, Tracey the Deputy Programme Director for the Advanced Clinical Practice programme and apprenticeship programme. In 2019, Tracey was awarded a Barts Charity Nurse / Allied Health Professional Clinical Research Fellowship (supervised by Prof Leanne Aitken, Dr Catherine Hurt, and Prof Julie Sanders). Tracey’s doctoral research focused on improving cognitive health after cardiac surgery. Tracey trained in Ayrshire and Arran College of Nursing and Midwifery before starting work as a staff nurse in the coronary care unit of the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Paisley. She moved to London in 1998 to undertake a cardiac rotation programme. She then worked in a variety of roles within Barts Health including cardiac research