Dr Sabine Ernst joins the EHJ International Editorial Board from her positions as Consultant Cardiologist and Reader in Cardiology in London
Dr Ernst is a German cardiac electrophysiologist with special expertise in complex arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation and ventricular arrhythmias both in paediatric and adult patients. After studying medicine in Germany, she travelled to the USA and Switzerland for further training, following which, she worked for a total of 10 years at the St Georg Hospital in Hamburg, Germany. In 2005, she obtained her Habilitation on catheter ablation techniques for atrial fibrillation at the University of Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany. Then in 2007, she accepted the position of Research Lead Electrophysiology at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust in London and in addition, has been a Reader in Cardiology at the National Heart and Lung Institute of Imperial College since 2012.
Dr Ernst is one of the pioneers of remote magnetic navigation and has established this technique from its’ initiation to clinical routine using state of the art equipment, including advanced 3D mapping techniques. Image integration from 3D acquisitions from magnetic resonance imaging or computed tomography assist her in performing her interventions. Patients with congenital heart disease, complex anatomy, and drug-refractory arrhythmias are particularly benefitting from these advances and constitute a major part of Dr Ernst’s clinical work.
She is also a strong advocate for radiation protection measures which does not only benefit her patients but also the entire cath lab staff. Sabine performs all her procedures with low or ZERO fluoroscopy and collaborates with several companies to facilitate these interventions.
In addition to being well published in peer-review journals, Dr Ernst published a book on ‘Anatomy for Cardiac Electrophysiologists’ together with Prof. Siew Yen Ho (Cardiac Morphology, Imperial College) in 2012, which is now also available in Chinese. A second volume to this benchmark publication is currently in preparation.
She serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals (Circulation Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, Europace, Journal of Interventional Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, Herzschrittmacher + Elektrophysiologie). Since 2013, she has been the Associate Editor of ‘Heart’ for cardiac arrhythmias.
During the last few years, Dr Ernst’s research has focused on novel imaging techniques to visualize the autonomic nervous system to better understand its’ role for the initiation and maintenance of cardiac arrhythmias.
Sabine has held several posts both in European [European Society of Cardiology & European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)] and American [Heart Rhythm Society (HRS)] electrophysiology societies and is currently a member of the EHRA educational committee as well as the Program committee of HRS. She will join the Board of the next EHRA President (Prof. John Camm) as the Coordinator for ‘Women in Electrophysiology’.
Sabine has been a founding member of the Electrophysiology International Community Alliance (EPIC), a global initiative to promote Women in Electrophysiology since 2008. In the same year, she joined the Executive Board of the British Arrhythmia Patient Charity (Arrhythmia Alliance UK).
Andros Tofield
Conflict of interest: none declared.
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