Dr Rachel Bastiaenen

Rachel is the Treasurer for BICCS and is a Consultant Cardiologist at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust where she is the Cardiovascular Clinical Director, and previous Service Lead for Inherited Cardiac Conditions. She is Clinical Co-Lead for Rare Disease in the South East Genomic Medicine Service and 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, inherited cardiomyopathies and cardiac MRI.