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ENTRESTO® (sacubitril/valsartan) is indicated in adult patients for the treatment of symptomatic chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction1
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Welcome to this on-demand site for the Heart Failure Foundation Course 2025 – an insightful three-part series designed for healthcare professionals who want to strengthen their understanding of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).
Led by a panel of cardiology experts, the course offers a comprehensive overview of HFrEF, including clinical investigation and diagnosis, treatment optimisation in hospital settings, and strategies for managing renal function in affected patients.
Whether you’re new to heart failure care or refreshing your knowledge, these sessions provide practical insights and essential skills you can apply directly in your clinical practice.
Despite humble beginnings as the son of a single mother and growing up on a deprived council estate on state benefits, Jawad Khan was able to gain entry into a prestigious London medical school and in 1996, he qualified from St George’s Hospital Medical School with distinction in Pathology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics. He also gained honours and a national scholarship from the renowned Wolfson Foundation for a Biomedical Sciences degree in Oncology and Immunology from the University of London.
Professor Khan has been a consultant cardiologist since 2007. He is recognised as an international expert in percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty with innovative 3D transoesophageal echocardiography guidance and leading a national service, as well as a recognised and published national expert in preoperative high-risk cardiac/anaesthetic assessment, and cardio-oncology.
He is a member of the exam board for the General Medical Council Medical Licensing Assessment and Clinical Expert for Portfolio Pathway applications for entry onto the specialist register.
Professor Khan is a recognised national expert in simulation-based medical education, completing a Masters in Medical Education. He has designed and organised innovative national simulation/virtual reality training courses for the British Cardiac Society, as well as faculty training courses for the Royal College of Paediatrics, improving patient safety and reducing human factor errors.
He is the Director of Medical Education at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, Honorary Professor of Cardiology, and Course Director for a Masters in Cardiac Ultrasound at the Ahlia University, Sudan. Furthermore, he is an Honorary Associate Professor for the University of Birmingham, and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Aston.
Professor Khan is also an examiner for the Royal College of Physicians clinical exams (PACES) and Medical Course Director for the UK Resuscitation Council Advanced Life Support courses. His research interest is broad and encompasses medical education, cardiac imaging, preventive cardiology, and health inequalities of access.
In recognition to his commitment to education regionally, nationally and internationally, he has attained a Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Educators and Fellowship of the Academy of Health Education.
Since qualifying in 2003, Joanne Lee has worked in cardiac nursing. She spent nine years working in the acute coronary care setting in Birmingham before embarking on a career in heart failure.
Joanne joined a community heart failure team in 2016 as a band 6 nurse, managing a case load of patients diagnosed with chronic heart failure. She was then given the opportunity as a band 7 nurse and clinical lead in Sandwell, which is her current role. The role includes managing 18 community heart failure nurses, managing a clinical case load as a non-medical prescriber nurse, as well as providing educational sessions to the wider multidisciplinary team.
She is affiliated with Health Innovation West Midlands for 16 hours per week as a heart failure champion for Birmingham and Solihull. Her role is to upskill clinicians within primary care with the aim of improving detection of heart failure, providing support in the management of heart failure, and advising on the appropriate escalation of heart failure patient care.
As part of her role, she is involved in supporting quality improvement initiatives, in particular, reducing the prevalence of heart failure within primary care networks, and improving heart failure assessments. Joanne also encourages primary care to complete 12‑monthly heart failure assessments.
Will Petchey, a consultant nephrologist and physician at West Suffolk and Cambridge University Hospitals, read medicine at Southampton and obtained his PhD from the University of Queensland, where his thesis focused on vitamin D’s impact on cardiovascular risk in patients with chronic kidney disease. With expertise gained from a post-certificate of completion of training translational research fellowship at the Oxford Transplant Centre, he has contributed to groundbreaking trials like the ONE Study, published in The Lancet in 2020 and EMPA-KIDNEY, published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 2023.
Parin Shah is a Cardiology Consultant specialising in heart failure and devices at Morriston Hospital in Swansea.
He completed his training in Wales and did his research in Hull, followed by a further Fellowship in Advanced Heart Failure in Glasgow.
His interests are in treating patients with advanced heart failure and developing a more efficient heart failure pathway.
Maggie Simpson is a senior cardiology nurse and medical student with over 17 years of experience in cardiovascular care. Her clinical focus includes heart failure, adult congenital heart disease and cardiac conditions in pregnancy. Currently in her fifth year of medical training at the University of Edinburgh, she continues to work across clinical, educational and policy roles. Maggie is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and the Heart Failure Association and contributes to national and European initiatives aimed at improving care for people with cardiovascular conditions.
Abbreviations
ACR, urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio; eGFR, estimated glomerular filtration rate; HF, heart failure; NICE, National Institute of Health and Care Excellence
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