Day 1 – Tuesday 23 September 2025, 9 Fitzroy Square, London

• Programme introduction and expectations – Course Directors
• Top tips on leadership journeys – Course Directors
• NHS infrastructure and how the NHS works – Course Directors
• Understanding the role of managers and how they can help – Course Directors
• Top tips on how to get the most out of the programme – previous ELP delegates
• National priorities for cardiology – Professor Simon Ray
• Sustainable healthcare for cardiology – Dr Frances Varian
• Service Improvement Project workshop – Course Directors

Day 2 – Wednesday 22 October 2025, 9 Fitzroy Square, London

• Leading successful and sustainable projects for quality improvement – Professor Stefan Scholtes
• Project management in service improvement – Helena Baxter

Day 3 – Monday 17 November 2025, 9 Fitzroy Square, London

• Compassionate leadership – Steve Hargreaves
• Networking lunch with supporting pharma company reps
• Compassionate leadership (continued) – Steve Hargreaves

Day 4 & Day 5 – Tuesday 27 & Wednesday 28 January 2026, Cambridge

• Emotional intelligence: Understanding self to understand others – Jennifer Ray Beckman
• DiSC personality tool – introduction – Jennifer Ray Beckman
• Leadership and DiSC: It’s all about the El – Jennifer Ray Beckman
• Q&A with local system leaders
• Networking dinner
• Overnight accommodation
• NHS funding and the development of successful business cases – Ed Smith

Day 6 – Friday 20 March, 9 Fitzroy Square, London

• Building team effectiveness – Professor Philip Stiles
• Human Factors – Dr Jon Morton
• Running effective meetings – Chris Wilkinson

Day 7 – Tuesday 14 April, 9 Fitzroy Square, London

• Managing difficult conversations and developing resilience

Day 8 – Sunday 31 May, Manchester

• Service improvement project presentations with Q&A
• Course evaluation and closing comments
• Awards

*The programme sessions, dates, and locations are still being finalised and are therefore subject to change.

The posters produced by delegates for presentation at the end of the cohort can be viewed below.

• Alexander Stockenhuber – Driving Advice and Ambulatory ECG Monitoring in the Evaluation and Management of Syncope: A Single-Centre Audit of DVLA Guidance Adherence and Diagnostic Yield
• Ibrahim Arosi – Physiologist led one stop CRT shop
• Jacqui Hunt – A retrospective analysis of effectiveness of creating an inpatient pathway for immediate insertion of implantable loop recorders in cryptogenic stroke patients
• James Brown – Patient-centred inotropic support – designing compassionate pathways for heart failure patients with decompensation
• Jonathan Senior – Cross-sectional imaging of ACHD patients under general anaesthesia – a service review
• Joseph McCambridge –  Defining the optimal CT coronary artery calcium score threshold for utilising ultra-high resolution imaging in photon-counting CT
• Kristopher Knott – Establishing a Pathway for Cardiac MRI in Patients with Non-MR Conditional Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices (CIEDs)
• Maria Niespialowska – Steuden – Pre and Post Ablation Pathway UHCW project
• Mengshi Yuan – CMR in acute rejection detection in cardiac transplant recipients
• Nabila Laskar – Focused Echocardiography in Primary Care: A Training Protocol to detect Structural Heart Disease and Reduce Referrals
• Nikhil Ahluwalia – Dynamic development of a sequential pathway for AF detection in a tertiary stroke service
• Ramesh Nadarajah – Cardiologist-led community optimisation of cardio-renal-metabolic risk factors – OPTIMISE
• Rebecca Hughes – Improving Sex-Specific Risk Stratification for Women in the Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinic
• Robin Collard – Empowering Cardiac Physiologists: Enhancing CIED Patient Outcomes
• Sergey Barsamyan – Establishing a Weekly Electrophysiology and Device Multidisciplinary Meeting to Improve Collaborative Decision-Making and Education in a Tertiary Cardiology Centre
• Shveta Monga – Genetic Hearts Network: a hub-and-spoke approach to inherited cardiac conditions (ICC) care
• Tamara Naneishvili – Are We Recording Adequate Data When We See HCM Patients
• Tiffany Kemp – Establishing a Left Bundle Branch Area Pacing (LBBAP) Service in Cornwall
• Vivienne Sullivan – Quality Improvement Project on Diagnosis of Rejection in Heart Transplant Recipients
• Will Jenner – Remote Device Alerts and Co-Management to Reduce Heart Failure Admissions: A Service Improvement Project

The posters produced by delegates for presentation at the end of the cohort can be viewed below.

• Alice Jackson – Identifying a need for a local infective endocarditis clinic
• Amir Aziz – Remote monitoring post-TAVI to expedite discharge – The Remote study
• Ashok Tahilyani – Seamless Cardiac Care
• Ayisha Khan-Kheil – The implementation of a cardiac physiologist led heart failure clinic
• Charles Spencer – Developing an Advanced Clinical Practitioner led integrated valve clinic
• Gauri Nepali – Ready Steady Go: Enhancing Transition for Adolescents with Congenital Heart Disease to adult congenital heart disease service
• Hashim M S Hashim – Bridging Gaps in Care: Establishing an Acute Coronary Syndrome Clinic for Timely Patient Follow-Up
• James Curtain – Development of an Integrated Care Service
• Jenna O’Sullivan – Improving care for asymptomatic patients with congenital long QT syndrome through remote monitoring
• Joyee Basu – Exercise Prescription in Inherited Cardiac Conditions
• Kishan Moosai – Setting up an Amiodarone pathway in Eastbourne District General Hospital
• Lavanya Athithan – Development and Expansion of a Heart Failure Virtual Ward Service
• Melissa Bouchard – The Virtual ACHD Sessions: The new national online learning platform for trainees
• Nicola Bowers – South Asian Biobank- Collaboration to implement a preventative strategic project investigating lifestyle, environmental, genomic, and molecular factors underlying cardiovascular health outcomes in South Asians
• Robbie Murphy – Service evaluation of a new contrast protocol for cardiac CT’s in patients with Glenn and Fontan circulation
• Suleman Aktaa – Programme to improve cardiovascular Quality of Care: putting theory in action
• Uchenna Ozo – Bridging the Gap: Delivering a PPCI pathway for patients on the Isle of Man
• Zahra Raisi-Estabragh – Excess cardiovascular disease burden in cancer survivors in East London

The posters produced by delegates for presentation at the end of the cohort can be viewed below.

• Andrew JM Lewis – A new, integrated, opt-out model to connect patients with clinical research opportunities
• Andrew R Chapman – Implementation of semi-automated electronic correspondence for a regional TAVI service
• Andrew Vanezis – High-fidelity Multi-professional In-situ Simulation in the Cardiac Catheter Laboratory in a Tertiary UK Centre
• Francesco Papalia – Implementing an Ambulatory IV Iron Service in a DGH
• Gavin S Chu – Rebooting the Lancashire Cardiovascular Syncope Service
• Georgiana Neculau – Developing a Nurse-Led Genomic Service to support patients affected by Inherited Cardiac Conditions
• Heba Nashat – Establishing digital application tools in Adult Congenital Heart Disease: A new model of care
• Helen Titu – Establishing a Priority Acute Cardiology e Referral – PACeR Pathway
• Jack Laffan – Reduction of Inappropriate Waste Disposal in the Cath Lab
• Jagdeep Singh – Lessons from an Unfinished Project
• Katie Francis – GRIT: Getting it Right In Transition – empowering young people with congenital heart disease
• Laurna McGovern – Development of a dedicated post partum clinic for women with cardiovascular disease during pregnancy
• Luis Martinez – Strengthening Referral Networks for Ambulatory Patients with Advanced Heart Failure: A multi-Centre Quality Improvement
• Rebecca Hyland – Remote Monitoring in Heart Failure – Does it Improve Care in a Community Setting?
• Rhodri Davies – Cardiac MRI waiting list backlog reduction with rapid scanning and AI-enabled reporting
• Rohini Ramaseshan – Developing a Pathway and Dedicated Service for Patients with Refractory Angina
• Sally Olsen – Failing To Prevent Is Preparing to Fail: Secondary Prevention – Where are we and what is the solution?
• Tushar Kotecha – Percutaneous thrombectomy service for acute pulmonary embolism
• Yuran Zheng – Development of Cardiac Physiologist Services and remote follow up at the Northern Care Alliance

The yearbook for the third cohort of the Emerging Leaders Programme, containing information and their project abstracts, is available to view. The posters produced by delegates for presentation at the end of the cohort can also be viewed below.

View the Cohort 3 yearbook

• Abishek Joshi – Community Diagnostic Hub Planning in North-East London
• Amy Dutton – Developing a future workforce for a Community Diagnostic Centre
• Andrew Morley-Smith – Developing a Pathway for Ambulant Management of Endomyocardial Biopsy
• Anish Bhuva – A Digital Pathway to Streamline Complex Care: Making MRI Available to Patients With Pacemakers and Defibrillators
• Anna Reid – Development of a Single Hospital Service Cardiac Cross Sectional Imaging
• Antonio de Marvao – Maternal Cardiology Networks 
• Delyth Rucarean – The Impact of an Inpatient Heart Failure Team at a Tertiary Cardiac Centre in Wales
• Filip Zemark – Heart failure service for patients with congenital heart diseases
• Fizzah A Choudry – Deferred Angiography Pathway for COVID Positive Patients Presenting with NSTEMI
• Harshil Dhutia – Leading a Community Charity in Raising Awareness of Sudden Cardiac Arrest in the Young
• Jen Peal – Establishing a Collaborative Complex Device Service
• Krishna Rathod – Digitalisation of Electrocardiograms (ECGs) at Barts Health Care NHS Trust: Service development from online requesting to delivering online ECGs at four large hospitals
• Manish Kalla – The Fib & Fit program: prehabilitation to improve AF outcomes
• Martin Stout – Cardiac Outreach for Acute Medicine – Phase 1: Stable Chest Pain
• Nada Al-Sakini – Increasing Psychology Provisions for ACHD Population
• Nang Kyi – Advance Care Plan (ACP) for Young Persons and Adults Living With Heart Failure
• Peter Wheen – The Development Process of a New Imaging Technology
• Reinette Hampson – A Novel Application of Focused Echocardiography: The Project Management Process
• Rupert Williams – Improved risk stratification, management and follow up of High Risk and Low Risk Cardiac Chest Pain Presentations to A&E
• Sinjini Biswas – Same-day discharge post TAVI using novel Ambulatory ECG monitoring devices
• Sree Kondapally – Developing a unified, clinician-lead, electronic referral pathway for Cardiology outpatient services at a tertiary care centre
• Sunita Avinash – To establish a one stop checklist system prior to Cardiac CT to further improve patient care pathways
• Thomas Treibel – Improving Access to the Heart Valve Team: Valve Week of Excellence
• Timothy Cartlidge – Development of a Pathway for Early Outpatient Coronary Angiography

The yearbook for the second cohort of the Emerging Leaders Programme, containing information and their project abstracts, is available to view.  The posters produced by delegates for presentation at the end of the cohort can also be viewed below.

View the Cohort 2 yearbook 

• Chris Wilkinson – Establishing an ambulatory unit for people with heart failure Previous provision
• Damien Collinson – Standardisation of diabetes screening and management in patients admitted to NHS Golden Jubilee National Hospital with Acute Coronary Syndromes
• Dan Jones – The Barts Heart Attack Centre early discharge pathway: a novel protocol for next day discharge after primary PCI for ST-elevation myocardial infarction
• Farhana Ara – Navigating challenges completing a QIP during COVID19: Pacing in post-TAVI patients
• Freya Lodge – Development of a Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Service in South-East Wales
• Gordon Begg – Improving arrhythmia services in a large district general hospital trust
• Hannah Sinclair – Post-Covid-19 Syndrome: A Dedicated Cardiology Clinic
• Hussain Contractor – Establishing a Vascular Optimization Clinic in Greater Manchester
• James O’Neill – Standardising the referral and management of patients with infective endocarditis at a large tertiary cardiothoracic centre
• Jennifer Middleton – Establishing a pathway for the diagnosis and management of arrhythmias in patients with pulmonary hypertension
• John McGowan – Improving Cardiovascular Care for Patients Receiving Immunotherapy for Cancer in North London
• Jonathan Behar – A digital pathway to support pre-procedural, shared decision making and consent 
• Jonathan Hinton – Developing a cardiology admission proforma fit for the 21st century
• Merzaka Lazdam – Integrated Care in the Management of Atrial Fibrillation Presentation and Creation of the Hot AF Clinic
• Mohammed Abubakr – KERNOW COmprehensive caRdiOlogy chest paiN manAgement and tReatment pathwaY (KERNOW CORONARY)
• Oliver Guttmann –  Introduction of a structured ward round on CCU at Barts Heart Centre
• Pierpaolo Pellicori – Football at the Heart of Research
• Victoria Pettemerides – Improving initiation of Disopyramide for patients with symptomatic obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
• Victoria Stoll – Improving access to MR imaging for patients with non- MR conditional cardiac devices

The yearbook for the first cohort of the Emerging Leaders Programme, containing information and their project abstracts, is available to view. The posters produced by delegates for presentation at the end of the cohort can also be viewed below.

View the Cohort 1 yearbook

• Alex Rothman –  Establishing a remote monitoring service for patients with pulmonary hypertension
• Aneil Malhotra – Initiating and leading a Prevention, Rehabilitation & Sports Cardiology Service in the North of England
• Anvesha Singh – Utilisation of cardiac imaging in ischaemic heart disease: producing a combined cardiac imaging request form to streamline the referral pathway
• Arjun Ghosh – Developing a complete CAR T cell cardio-oncology programme –how the BCS ELP showed the way
• Daniel O’Hare – Development of a Non-Sustained Ventricular Tachycardia treatment pathway
• Helena Bolam – Referral Management for Patients with Suspected Heart Failure during the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Ibrahim Yearoo – Improving Efficacy and Sustainability of Virtual Cardiology Clinics
• Joanna Lim – The Creation of the Oxford Heart Centre Staff Well-Being Team
• Laura Dobson – Development of a novel Complex Valve Assessment Clinic
• Paul Haydock – Developing an Integrated, Multidisciplinary Clinic for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Patients and their Carers from across the Wessex Region
• Rajiv Sankaranarayanan – Proposal for Community IV Diuretics to Treat Acute Decompensated Heart Failure using a Portable Elastomeric Pump and Point of Care Blood Tests
• Rebecca Dobson – Equality in Cardiology; Encouraging and supporting the female cardiologists of today & tomorrow
• Shazia Hussain – The evaluation of departmental adherence to the European Society of Cardiology guidelines in the assessment of ventricular function after Myocardial Infarction 
• William Moody – Extending the Reach of Expert Amyloidosis Care:Development of a Hub-and-Spoke Model