2025 Rare disease notebook webinar series header imageSession 3: Inherited aortic conditions

Chairs: TBC

Wednesday, 21 May 2025

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Agenda

  • What is inherited aortopathy? (15 mins) – Leema Robert
  • Using AI to identify patients with aortopathy for genomic testing (15 mins) – Antonio de Marvao or Alex Deng
  • Aortic dilatation: when to refer and when to intervene (20 mins) – Maite Tome
  • Q&A session (10 mins)

Quiz / certificate

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Rachel Bastiaenen

Rachel is a Consultant Cardiologist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust where she is the Clinical Lead for Inherited Cardiac Conditions. She is also an Honorary Senior Lecturer at King’s College London.

She studied at Peterhouse Cambridge and Imperial College London. She completed Cardiology training in the London Deanery and a fellowship in Vancouver. Her PhD was awarded from St George’s University of London and involved non-invasive risk stratification of patients with cardiomyopathy. Her clinical and research interests focus on inherited arrhythmia syndromes, cardiomyopathies and cardiac MRI.