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Professor Sanjay Sharma BSc MBChB FRCP (UK) MD

Professor of Inherited Cardiovascular Disease and Sports Cardiology at St George's Hospital, London.

Speaking about heart muscle conditions (cardiomyopathies) and other conditions that can predispose to young sudden cardiac death.  Sanjay wrote the medical information for Dari Taylor MP’s Cardiac Risk in the Young (Screening) Bill that led to a new chapter on Arrhythmias and Sudden Death being drafted for the National Service Framework.  He is also the London Marathon doctor and is the only British representative on the EACPR Sports Cardiology Section Nucleus (an elite committee within the European Society of Cardiology).

Dr Elijah Behr MA MBBS MD MRCP

Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Electrophysiologist, Cardiac and Vascular Division, St George’s Hospital, London.

Speaking about arrhythmias (Ion channelopathies) in young people.  Elijah wrote the CRY SADS booklet “when a young person dies suddenly” that was funded by the British Heart Foundation.

Dr Mary Sheppard MB BCH BAO BSc MD FRCPath

Senior Lecturer / Consultant, Department of Histopathology, National Heart and Lung Institute, Royal Brompton Hospital, London.

Speaking on the role of the expert cardiac pathologist and the importance of the CRY pathology grant facilitating a fast track service for sudden cardiac death.

Penny Schofield

Coroner for West Sussex. 

Speaking on the role of the coroner in the event of a young sudden cardiac death.

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