Dr Emma Rees

Health and Care Research Wales Faculty award:

Award: Health Research Fellowship Scheme (2022 - 2026)

Project title: In older people with suspected heart failure, does adding a focused ultrasound scan to the current community pathway improve health care quality? (HF-FOCUS)

Biography

Dr Emma Rees is an experienced clinical scientist specialising in ultrasound heart scans. Her career began in NHS Wales at the Morriston Hospital Cardiac Centre, Swansea where she worked for 10 years before moving to Swansea University to pursue a role which combined clinical and academic work. Emma was the past programme director for Healthcare Science (cardiology), a commissioned education programme which runs on an all-Wales basis. Since completing her PhD at the Wales Heart Research Institute, Emma has been developing a programme of innovation and clinical research to improve patient care by using heart ultrasound in out-of-hospital locations. Her current research combines clinical effectiveness and implementation science methods.

Emma is the scientific lead for a novel heart scan clinic in an award-winning Health and Wellbeing Academy at Swansea University. She is also a committee member for British Society of Echocardiography and a handling editor for the Journal Echo Research and Practice.

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