Dr Claire Lawson

"I am a clinical epidemiologist and Associate Professor with over 27 years’ experience in cardiovascular nursing across clinical practice, education, and research. I have held four competitive personal research fellowships from the Florence Nightingale Foundation, Wellcome Trust, and NIHR, and lead an internationally recognised research programme spanning three core themes: (i) the collection, linkage, and analysis of large-scale health data to investigate the sociodemographic and comorbidity epidemiology of heart failure; (ii) patient-centred outcomes; and (iii) health informatics and digital innovation.

At the University of Leicester, I lead the Population Health theme within the British Heart Foundation Centre for Research Excellence and the Heart Failure and Multiple Long-Term Conditions theme within the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre. Nationally and internationally, I hold senior leadership roles within the cardiovascular nursing and heart failure research communities, including incoming President of the British Association of Nursing in Cardiovascular Care, Nurse and AHP Lead on the British Society of Heart Failure Research Committee, and membership of European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure Association scientific committees.

I contribute to the international research community through editorial and peer-review roles, including the European Journal of Heart Failure, JACC: Heart Failure (Statistical Consultant), the British Journal of Cardiology, and the British Journal of Cardiac Nursing. I also serve on NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) funding panels, including the East Midlands and the under-represented professions scheme. Previously, I was a task-force member for the current European Heart Failure Nurse Curriculum."

My heart failure research programme has been funded by Wellcome Trust, NIHR and BHF. I also work closely with Leicester NIHR BRC, BHF CRE and Leicester Real World Evidence Unit. I am deputy director for Leicestershire Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme funded by Wellcome Trust.

"Currently 5 PhD students who have submitted or completed and 8 active PhD students."

"I contribute to the Masters level duel registration nurse and leadership programme within the School of Allied Health Professionals and am involved in the development and delivery of research teaching within the curriculum. I am an experienced lecturer in undergraduate and post graduate nurse programmes and inter-professional education and have experience in curriculum development (including the heart failure curriculum for European Society of Cardiology). I developed and led the first specialist cardiology nursing courses in the Shropshire Cheshire and Staffordshire region which included specialist nursing practice in interventional cardiology specialist cardiology nursing practice and cardiac rehabilitation. I have a keen interest in informatics and developed one of the first on-line assessments for pre-registration nursing at Keele University and was an active member in developing computerised clinical simulation using manikins at the School. I am also committee member of British Association Nursing Cardiovascular Care and co-develop bi-monthly webinars and annual training days for nurses in cardiovascular care."

I have conducted a number of media interviews and am happy to talk about my heart failure research particularly in the areas of demography epidemiology comorbidity and outcomes.

"BSH Research Committee (2021-present) British Journal Cardiac Nursing Editorial Board (2021-present) British Cardiovascular Society Mentor (2021-present) ESC HFA Surveys Registries and Epidemiology Committee 2020-2022 (nominated member) National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) academic career adviser (2020-present) British Association of Nursing in Cardiovascular Care (BANCC) Incoming President (2020-present) ESC Member of the Heart Failure Association Comorbidities Committee (2017-2019) ESC Member of the Heart Failure Association Task Force for Nurse Curriculum (2013-2016)"

"Awards: Nurse Investigator Award ESC Heart Failure Association (2021) Fellow of the ESC Heart Failure Association (2021 to present) Emerging Investigator American Heart Association (2020) Paper of the Year 2020 (Lead author); Circulation Heart Failure (2020) Outstanding contribution to research award American College of Epidemiology (2015) Invited speaker: British Cardiovascular Society; Invited speaker (June 2021; ‘Hot Topic session; June 2020) ESC Association of Cardiovascular Nursing & Allied Professions (June 2020) British Society of Heart Failure (invited session Chair June 2021; invited speaker November 2020) American College of Epidemiology Plenary Presentation (Atlanta; 2015) International Networking for Healthcare Education Conference Plenary presentation (2015) Visiting Lecturer: Visiting Research fellow and Affiliation Karolinska Institutet Sweden (2020-present) Visiting Research Fellow University of Linköping Sweden (2012-present) "

"Lawson C Cothers H Remsing S Squire I Zaccardi F Davies M Bernhardt L Reeves K Lilford R Khunti K. Trends in 30-day cause specific readmissions following hospitalisation for heart failure in England; impact of sex socioeconomic status and ethnicity. Nurse Investigator Award Winner; ESC HFA June 2021 Lawson C. 'The Big Data Explosion'; big problem or big opportunity for cardiovascular nursing care? Invited ‘Hot Topic’ presentation; British Cardiovascular Society June 2021 Lawson C. The importance of research in nursing and allied health professionals. Invited presentation; British Society of Heart Failure November 2020 Lawson C. Improving outcomes in Heart Failure - twists and turns of a fellowship research journey. Leicester Hospital Research Innovation Event October 2019 Lawson C. Heart Failure PROMS - start point end point or no point ??. East Midlands Heart Failure Network April 2019. Lawson C. Causes and outcomes of PROMs in heart failure. Leicester Leicestershire and Rutland Community Heart Failure General Meeting. Leicester July 2018 "

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"2020-current Masters in Medical Statistics University of Leicester 2016 PhD (Clinical Science) University of Keele 2007 MA in Medical Ethics and Law University of Keele 2000 BA (Hons) Health Studies University of Keele Other courses: Practical Pharmaco-epidemiology; LSHTM London (2019) Causal Inference in Epidemiology; LSHTM London (2019) Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis; Imperial College London (2014) Logistic Regression & Survival Analysis Imperial College London (2014) Prognosis Research (PROGRESS); Keele University (2013) Advanced Analysis of prognostic Studies; Erasmus University Rotterdam (2013) Principles of Epidemiologic Data-analysis; Erasmus University Rotterdam (2013) Advanced Course in Epidemiologic Analysis LSHTM London (2013) MRC Epidemiology for Course for Clinicians Medical Research Council (2013) Statistics and Epidemiology Keele University (2013) Sesearch Methods Keele University (2013) "