Dr Jim Moore

Past President of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society, GP, GPSI Cardiology, Gloucestershire

Dr Moore is a GP in Gloucestershire with a special interest in Cardiovascular Medicine and Past President of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society, spearheading significant changes in this organisation. He lectures extensively across the UK.

He has been heavily involved in National CVD advisory groups, guidelines and working parties. He was a member of the NICE Chronic Heart Failure in Adults Guideline committee (2016-2018) and was a board member of British Society for Heart Failure.

Dr Moore has provided cardiovascular clinical support to local commissioning organisations for over two decades and to Cardiac Networks in the South-West. He is currently Clinical Co-Lead (Primary Care) for the West of England Integrated Cardiac Clinical Network.

Dr Moore is the National Clinical Co- Lead (Primary Care) for the National Cardiac Transformation Programme which has included working closely on NHSE initiatives such as Managing Heart Failure @Home and more recently chaired a group that developed the National (NHSE) guidance for the Virtual Ward care for people with heart failure.

He has been involved in the establishment and subsequent development of the community-based Gloucestershire Heart Failure service since its inception in 2003 where he continues to work as a GPSI.

Prof Christopher Clark

Clinical Associate Professor of Primary Care Cardiovascular Medicine, Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care, University of Exeter

Chris studied Medicine and Physiology at University of Bristol Medical School. He has 30 years’ experience in rural general practice and has been a researcher in Exeter for 20 years. Research areas are mainly cardiovascular, with particular emphasis on blood pressure measurement and management. He is a member of the NICE Cardiovascular disease, lipids and Hypertension guideline committees, chairs the British & Irish Hypertension Society Blood Pressure Technology Committee, and sits on the European Society for Hypertension Blood Pressure Monitoring Working Group. Also active in rural research, Chris is Immediate past chair of the RCGP Rural Forum Steering Group, and co-editor of Rural Healthcare, 2nd Edition.

Dr Stephanie Connaire

Cardiology Consultant (ACHD and Obstetric Cardiology), University Hospital of Wales

Job Title

Consultant Cardiologist

Interests / expertise / research in CHD

Dr Connaire is interested in all aspects of Adult Congenital Heart Disease and Maternal Cardiology. She also has expertise in cardiac imaging with accreditation in transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography, and a particular interest in intra-procedural imaging.

Current role and experience

Dr Connaire graduated from Cardiff University Medical School in 2015. She trained in hospitals across the Oxford region, Bristol and South Wales. She completed subspecialty training with the ACHD teams in the Bristol Heart Institute and University Hospital of Wales.

She is a Consultant Cardiologist at the University Hospital of Wales. As part of the South Wales and South West CHD Network, she also spends time in Bristol and contributes to the on-call service for patients across the region.   

Interests outside of work

Outside of work, Dr Connaire likes to keep active and is a very keen runner. She has run several marathons and regularly races competitively in for her Cardiff-based running club. 

Dr Gethin Ellis

BMedSC MB ChB FRCP, Cardiologist Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Dr Gethin Ellis has been a Cardiologist at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital (now part of Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board) since 2001 after having previously been a BHF Junior Fellow at the Wales Heart Research Institute.  His primary MD research interest was in the field of heart failure, but he has also published and presented work at both national and international meetings that encompass a range of cardiac conditions.  He has been heavily involved in preparing local and regional pathways/guidance within several key areas of Cardiology.  Gethin previously held the posts of South East Wales Cardiac Network Cardiology lead clinician, regional specialty advisor for the RCP in Cardiology and was the Welsh representative on the MINAP and National Heart Failure Audit steering groups. He is the current Honorary president of the Welsh Cardiovascular Society.

Tristan Groves

Senior anticoagulation and thrombosis pharmacist, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

Tristan Groves is the lead anticoagulation and thrombosis pharmacist for Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. He is based at the Heath hospital in Cardiff and works as part of multidisciplinary teams for the treatment of patients with non- cancer and cancer associated venous thromboembolism, as well as providing expert support and education for both primary and secondary care physicians and allied healthcare professionals.

He is also a member of the steering committee for the award winning all wales “Stop a Stroke / Atal Stroc” group set up to reduce AF related strokes across Wales, and he is also on the Welsh risk pool VTE Wales Programme Board.

Amrita Jesurasa

Consultant in Public Health, National Lead for Prevention in Clinical Settings, Public Health Wales

Consultant in Public Health, National Lead for Prevention in Clinical Settings, Public Health Wales

Amrita trained at Imperial College London and completed her medical degree in 2005, having undertaken an intercalated BSc in cardiovascular science. Amrita initially trained in paediatrics, before beginning training in public health in Yorkshire & Humber, during which time Amrita was also an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the University of Sheffield. Amrita was appointed to her current substantive post in Public Health Wales in 2020, where her portfolio focuses on addressing the behavioural and clinical risk factors that contribute most to the burden of disease in Wales. Within this portfolio, Amrita leads a number of programmes, including ones focused on disease prevention (namely the All Wales Diabetes Prevention Programme and cardiovascular disease prevention), lifecourse approaches (especially around musculoskeletal health and health & wellbeing after pregnancy), workforce & prevention programmes (including Making Every Contact Count, social prescribing and AHPs & prevention), and strategic work on a ‘Prevention-Based Health & Care Framework’ to embed a coordinated approach to prevention into the health and care system in Wales.

In 2021, Amrita also successfully applied for and commenced a NICE Fellowship, which complimented her consultant portfolio, as it looked at ways to implement NICE guidelines related to prevention, through influencing contractual, strategic and operational levers. Having attended Harvard Business School’s Value-Based Healthcare Intensive Seminar in January 2023, Amrita is also looking at ways that this approach can support embedding prevention in the health and care system.

Dr Sundhya Raman

PCCS Lifestyle Medicine Representative, BSc (hons) MBBS DPhil (Oxon) Dipl IBLM/BSLM

Dr Sundhya Raman is a medical doctor (Guys, Kings and St Thomas’s, 2007) with a BSc in Pharmacology & Physiology, a PhD (DPhil) in Genetics/Epigenetics is qualified in Lifestyle Medicine with the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine and the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine.

She began her career as a clinical scientist, and aside from her DPhil at Oxford she worked in labs around the world including at Yale, University of Sydney and at the Wolfson Centre for Age Related Diseases, London.

Dr Raman is the founder and director of a lifestyle medicine health consultancy (My Wellness Doctor) which provides advice and support to educate and empower individuals to prevent illness, reverse disease, and optimise mental and physical wellbeing using evidence-based lifestyle modalities.

She has created a programme using lifestyle change to lower cholesterol in a primary care setting, and is the lead for virtual group consultations for diabetes at Plant Based Health Online.

Dr Raman regularly presents talks and teaching on lifestyle medicine and healthy ageing to both medical professionals (GP registrars, medical students, MIMs Learning Live, PCN training events) as well as to the lay public, including a focus on specific risks and solutions for BAME groups. She authored the diet section for JBS4 and co-authored the section on physical activity. She contributes to media publications on lifestyle advice to prevent chronic disease.