Patient Advocate / Founder of SCAD IRELAND / Public Speaker on following topics; SCAD, Heart Failure and the younger patient, Women's Heart Matters, Misdiagnosis and its consequences for the patient, the Heart Attack experience, Life after cardiac arrest, Psychological impact of a cardiac diagnosis, Life with an ICD, the importance of the Doctor/Patient relationship to recovery, the inadequacies that exist in patient care, the need for Patient inclusion in cardiac policy formation, Patient Advocacy, the power of the patient in medicine.
With a background in Marketing, working in Ireland and abroad, Pauline set up SCAD IRELAND in 2018, after experiencing SCAD, misdiagnosis, three heart attacks, cardiac arrest, open heart surgery, ICD implantation and a diagnosis of heart failure in 2012, all within days of the birth of her third child. Pauline now works with national and International cardiac organisations and policy makers to improve patient care, supports and 'value' in medicine.