Sarah Birkhoelzer @sarah.theheartdoc

Thank you @BritishCardioSo 🇬🇧@heartresearchuk for this great opportunity to join @mvaduganathan @harvardmed @BrighamWomens 🇺🇸 Special thanks to @cardiolewis & @mvaduganathan & my TPD @nicholas_pegge who believed in me from day 1 when everybody else thought I was delusional.

#CVI2025 @cvinnovations #Austin #Texas was an opportunity to present our abstract on behalf of my mentees #AI in #Healthcare @esbrilakis @WomenAs1 @mirvatalasnag @aayshacader @biljana_parapid @AnastasiaSMihai @KemalogluOz @BirkhoelzerS @CASivaram1 @timir_paul @chadialraies @Hragy

👣Advancing #PAD care with #GLP1 therapies 📽️Drs @MarcBonaca & @hvanspall discuss how #semaglutide improved walking ability and QoL in pts with #T2D & PAD 👉 ow.ly/eHCx50WuLUl 📽️Dr @Catgobears on GLP1 RAs reducing amputation risk in moderate PAD 👉 ow.ly/XerM50WuLUm

Watch out for this year’s #ESCCongress #ESCTV Program 2025 Madrid..from aeronautical cardiology to core sciences, disparities & research methodology .. partnering with @worldheartfed @LubbDup @escardio @charles_driving @AmiBhattMD

Appeal successful. Good news for me, but this policy needs to be removed ASAP so that Wales trainees can use THEIR study budget to attend international conferences/courses. Let's support trainees to excel not hold them back! @antonsaayman0 @shaun_smale @y_meddyg @ObaBabsOsibodu

Just 5 years ago, HFpEF was described as the “stepchild” of HF with no approved therapies. Today, there are 5 US FDA therapies: ✅ Empagliflozin (#EMPEROR) ✅ Dapagliflozin (#DELIVER) ✅ Sotagliflozin (#SOLOISTWHF) ✅ Sacubitril/Valsartan (#PARAGONHF) ✅ Finerenone (#FINEARTSHF)

Are you a current cardiology resident doctor? Are you happy with the training you're getting? If not, make sure you make your 🗣️ heard. Contact your @TheBJCA rep, your educational supervisor, and your TPD.

We continue to see the harmful effects of mandated GIM dual accreditation on Cardiology speciality training. RDs are spending a disproportionate length of time doing GIM (beyond the stipulated 12 months). Which has led to a marked reduction in procedural + imaging volume

Dspite UK training being the longest in the world.. post CCT fellowships (historically an opportunity to develop new + unique skills) are now all but mandatory to acquire basic competency which should be delivered within training. The system is broken and needs urgent fixing.

My latest @Medscape Medical Mentor podcast is live! 🔶What is Lp(a), and when should we check it?🔶 🎯Lp(a) is an important but underappreciated independent risk factor for #ASCVD Link in comments👇🏾 Also on @Spotify & @ApplePodcasts

🌟 Congratulations to Dr. Samuela Carigi, cardiologist at Rimini Hospital & winner of the 2025 Mentorship Award. Her dedication to cardiomyopathies, heart failure and mentorship exemplifies advancing cardiovascular care through leadership and collaboration. #WIC #CardioTwitter

Them: You are so lucky to have a career & a family. 📸Me: Sitting in the carpark at 30 degrees heat writing a paper while my son is at a birthday party…. ….feeling lucky 🍀

Male and female athletes have different hearts, and that can have serious consequences @MeaganWasfy statnews.com/2025/07/08/car… via @statnews

📢 European Exam in Core Cardiology results are available! If you took the exam earlier this year, you can now access your EECC results in your EECC portal.

👩‍🏫 CLIMB 2025 kicks off today! We’re excited to welcome this year’s cohort of women physicians as they begin the journey to strengthen their clinical skills & grow as leaders in cardiology. Let the learning begin! #CLIMB2025 #CardioTwitter #WIC

6. And here's the thing, I have never seen a private patient in my life. It is a decision I made early in my career to somehow pay back society for the opportunities they gave me. I can identify with people from deprived backgrounds that I see as patients - I grew up amongst…

5. I have interviewed for school medical admissions in the past- the sad thing is that these days the vast majority of applicants are middle class kids. People like me and no longer afford to do medicine and be saddled with > 100k debts, a salary worse than most supermarket…

4. I entered medicine knowing that I would be guaranteed a job, would get free accommodation for the first couple of years and that i could better myself I never had to worry about whether I would be able to pay my loans back, I didn't have any. I didn't have to rely on my…

3. I worked hard and was offered a place @UniofOxford My family never had to worry about how we could afford this - I never paid the penny to go to university to study medicine. In contrast both you and your government have supported the abolition of state grants, removed free…

2. I was born in Longsight, one of the most deprived areas in the UK. I dreamt of succeeding academically and worked hard. My friend who I used to walk home from school with went to prison after holding up an off license with a shotgun . I succeeded, they didn't- i was lucky.…

1. I achieved these dreams as a working class lad from a state school- the son of immigrants, i was born in longsight Manchester (one of the top 5% most deprived areas in the UK) i was the first person in my family to get an education past the age of 16 (and am still the only…