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Dr Curtis has been a consultant cardiologist since 2008. She
runs ACHD and Inherited Cardiac Conditions clinics at the Bristol
Heart Institute and also outreach ACHD clinics in Cheltenham
General Hospital and Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton. She is the
Lead Cardiologist for Obstetric Medicine at University Hospitals
Bristol, which is service run jointly by cardiologists,
obstetricians and anaesthetists in providing care for pregnant
women with heart disease across the South West of England. Dr
Curtis set up and runs the Regional ACHD Training Programme for the
South West and South Wales and is Co-Founder and Director of the
Bristol and Cardiff ACHD Echo Course (est. 2016).
Dr Curtis is particularly interested in all aspects of maternal
cardiology, from contraception and pre-pregnancy counselling to the
care of the pregnant woman with heart disease. She is also
interested inherited heart muscle disease and diseases of the
aorta, such as Marfan's syndrome.
Dr Curtis trained in Edinburgh, London, Cardiff and Bristol and
is accredited in trans-thoracic and transoesophageal
echocardiography. She regularly presents and chairs at regional and
national cardiology and echocardiography meetings. She has
published in her areas of expertise and in heart failure. Her
research interests include congenital heart disease in pregnancy
and inherited aortopathies.
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