DrCatherineFrancis

Faculty of Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute

Honorary Clinical Research Fellow

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Sydney StreetRoyal Brompton Campus

Summary

Dr Katie Francis (nee Fletcher) undertook her first degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, where she was awarded the St John's College Prize and the St John's College USC scholarship. She gained upper second class honours. She went on to study Medicine as a graduate-entry student at the University of Oxford, gaining the Hobson-Mann Memorial Scholarship and the Domus Merit Award.

After completing an academic F2 programme in Cardiology in Oxford, she has worked as a Cardiology SpR for 3 years in leading academic Cardiology centres in London, continuing her interest in structural and congenital heart disease. She has also maintained a strong interest in teaching and education, having been appointed as a Teaching Fellow at Green College Oxford, and also having worked as a GMC trainee Partner focussing on the Royal Colleges' assessment systems.

She was appointed to a BRU clinical fellowship in 2012, with which she joined the groups of Professor John Pepper and Professor Jane Mitchell. Her PhD project is using novel techniques in bioinformatics and cell culture to study vascular biology in health and in bicuspid aortic valve disease.

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Francis C, Futschik M, Huang J, et al.Francis C, Futschik M, Huang J, Bai W, Sargurupremraj M, Teumer A, Breteler M, Petretto E, SR HO A, Amouyel P, Engelter S, Bülow R, Völker U, Völzke H, Dörr M, Imtiaz M-A, Aziz A, Lohner V, Ware J, Debette S, Elliott P, Dehghan A, Matthews P close, 2022, Genome-wide associations of aortic distensibility suggest causality for aortic aneurysms and brain white matter hyperintensities, Nature Communications, Vol:13, ISSN:2041-1723

Simoes Monteiro de Marvao A, McGurk K, Zheng S, et al.Simoes Monteiro de Marvao A, McGurk K, Zheng S, Thanaj M, Bai W, Duan J, Biffi C, Mazzarotto F, Statton B, Dawes T, Savioli N, Halliday B, Xu X, Buchan R, Baksi A, Quinlan M, Tokarczuk P, Tayal U, Francis C, Whiffin N, Theotokis A, Zhang X, Jang M, Berry A, Pantazis A, Barton P, Rueckert D, Prasad S, Walsh R, Ho C, Cook S, Ware J, O'Regan D close, 2021, Phenotypic expression and outcomes in individuals with rare genetic variants of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Vol:78, ISSN:0735-1097, Pages:1097-1110

Ware J, Tadros R, Francis C, et al.Ware J, Tadros R, Francis C, Xu X, Matthews P, watkins H, Bezzina C close, 2021, Shared genetic pathways contribute to risk of hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies with opposite directions of effect, Nature Genetics, Vol:53, ISSN:1061-4036, Pages:128-134

Bai W, Suzuki H, Huang J, et al.Bai W, Suzuki H, Huang J, Francis C, Wang S, Tarroni G, Guitton F, Aung N, Fung K, Petersen SE, Piechnik SK, Neubauer S, Evangelou E, Dehghan A, O'Regan DP, Wilkins MR, Guo Y, Matthews PM, Rueckert D close, 2020, A population-based phenome-wide association study of cardiac and aortic structure and function, Nature Medicine, Vol:26, ISSN:1078-8956, Pages:1654-1662

Renard M, Francis C, Ghosh R, et al.Renard M, Francis C, Ghosh R, Scott AF, Witmer PD, Ades LC, Andelfinger GU, Arnaud P, Boileau C, Callewaert BL, Guo D, Hanna N, Lindsay ME, Morisaki H, Morisaki T, Pachter N, Robert L, Van Laer L, Dietz HC, Loeys BL, Milewicz DM, De Backer J close, 2018, Clinical Validity of Genes for Heritable Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm and Dissection, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Vol:72, ISSN:0735-1097, Pages:605-615

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