Sibs Anwar
Consultant, Barts Heart Centre, UK

Why did you decided to apply for the programme?
An ideal opportunity to learn from world leaders in health economics.

How do you plan to use the knowledge and skills gained in the programme in your future career?
Add further expertise to my day-to-day practice in complex cardiac care.

What are you looking forward to most about joining the programme?
Learning new skills and techniques for developing better clinical services.

Nagi Azzi
Interventional Cardiologist, Lebanese American University Medical Center, Lebanon

Why did you decided to apply for the programme?
To be able to access a position in health management in my country.

How do you plan to use the knowledge and skills gained in the programme in your future career?
Improve the health infrastructure, particularly in cardiovascular diseases.

What are you looking forward to most about joining the programme?
All the new science that I haven't been taught during my cardiologist years.

Marcelo Haertel-Miglioranza
Medical Advisor , Health Intelligence Cell: Data Science Program for Management in Complementary Healthy System, Unimed Porto Alegre, Brazil

Why did you decided to apply for the programme?
Gain knowledge to contribute intelligently to the medical practice.

How do you plan to use the knowledge and skills gained in the programme in your future career?
Intelligently participate and be a leader in the healthcare transformation.

What are you looking forward to most about joining the programme?
Share experiences and best practices with forward-thinking providers.

Michal Kuzemczak
Interventional Cardiologist, Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland

Why did you decided to apply for the programme?
The impetus for me was to expand my knowledge and create international ties.

How do you plan to use the knowledge and skills gained in the programme in your future career?
I want to participate more efficiently in shaping the CV field in Poland.

What are you looking forward to most about joining the programme?
I am looking forward to participating in on-campus educational blocks.

David Niederseer
Consultant Cardiologist, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland

Why did you decided to apply for the programme?
To be able to communicate with health economists in their language.

How do you plan to use the knowledge and skills gained in the programme in your future career?
Address the many economic questions that arise in my day-to-day practice.

What are you looking forward to most about joining the programme?
Fantastic learning experience. Networking. Future collaborations.

Kerstin Piayda
Resident and Research Associate, CVC Frankfurt, Germany

Why did you decided to apply for the programme?
It allows a new, broader perspective on our daily working environment.

How do you plan to use the knowledge and skills gained in the programme in your future career?
Strengthen the cooperation of policymakers and clinicians to improve outcomes.

What are you looking forward to most about joining the programme?
Meeting peers from all over the world with inspiring ideas.

Fenni Shidika
Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Windhoek Central Hospital, Namibia

Why did you decided to apply for the programme?
To build my resume for the development of robust cardiovascular services.

What are you looking forward to most about joining the programme?
Learning and building critical networks.

Jochen Reinöhl
Managing Consultant and Head of Stuctural Heart Program (ISAH), Heart Centre Freiburg University, Germany

"If you are at the beginning of your career, I think it helps a lot to understand better what will be the future of cardiovascular medicine."

Athar Ali Tajik
Director of Medicine, Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board, Norway

"I would recommend this programme to clinicians that want to take on a bigger role in shaping the future of healthcare.

The programme has opened up several opportunities for me and has helped facilitate a career transition, enabling me to secure the position of Medical Director in the Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board.

This programme has also expanded my network and helped me build the skills that are needed to meet the future challenges of healthcare."

Bridget Caffrey-Armstrong
Project Manager, Health Service Executive, Ireland

"The knowledge that I gained through the programme has enhanced the direction of my career.

I am now working in a strategic role in the Health Service Executive, applying the concepts of health economics to support service improvement and decision-making.

I would recommend the programme to anyone who wants to have the chance to be engaged in the discussion and influence policy-making at that level."

Paul Kantor
Director of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Alberta, Canada

"Mostly for reasons that pertain to the ability to cross this great divide that exists between health professionals, policy-makers, and people of economic knowledge.

We are speaking a different language it seems, and the problem of being able to understand one another, and translate the realities into each other’s realm is very significant."

Mark Sopher
Consultant Cardiologist, Royla Bournemouth Hospital, UK

"I have become more and more interested in the system in which I work, recognising that economic, financial, regulatory issues, and the organisation of health care has a huge impact on the quality of the service, not just what the doctors did day-in, day-out.

My thinking has become much more critical, much more rigorous.

Also it’s very enjoyable to be in London, to be with other students from all around the world, and the quality of the teaching here is exceptional."

Elena Arbelo
Senior Specialist, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Spain

"I am a practicing clinician, so now I understand better what difficulties from an economic perspective, from a quality perspective the health care market is facing."

Philippe Timmermans
Jessa Hospital, Belgium

"I enrolled specifically to alter legislation about long term mechanical circulatory support in end-stage heart failure in my country. Despite the overwhelming evidence showing the benefits, the use of these devices was restricted to patients awaiting a heart transplantation as the treatment was deemed too costly for other patients. After completing the programme at LSE, I decided to dedicate my dissertation to this issue. After a positive evaluation, the abstract was submitted to the ESC 2020 congress, where it was selected for 'best abstract' in the health policy category. With the positive response from both the academy and the international cardiology community, I contacted the health care minister in my country. Based on a meeting with the minister, my dissertation was sent to the national health policy bureau. A few months later, the policy of long-term mechanical support was altered. Since March 2021, these devices can now be implanted in patients with refractory heart failure who are not eligible for heart transplantation - as elaborated in my thesis!"