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Sadie Bennett

MRes, BSc, FBSE

Cardiac Clinical Scientist & Visiting Researcher

Biography

Sadie is a Cardiac Clinical Scientist at University Hospitals of North Midlands and Visiting Researcher within CCRF. Sadie has worked in the NHS for over 15 years and specialises in echocardiography and stress echocardiography. She uses these skills to manage patients with heart valve conditions within a Scientist lead care model.

Sadie is an national assessor for the Academy of Healthcare Science (AHCS) & British Society Echocardiography (BSE), and is a former BSE Chair of Accreditation. She is a sub-editor for the BSE's quarterly journal (ECHO) and reviewer for Echo, Research & Practice. Sadie is also a member of the British Society of Echocardiography research and audit committee, Council member and Trustee. 

Sadie's national contribution to cardiac science has been recognised with being awarded a Fellowship of the BSE (2023) and winner the SCST, Dave Richley award for outstanding education (2024). Sadie is also a University of Staffordshire "highly Commended NHS hero" (2025).

Sadie aspires to develop towards a role as a clinical academic (who use their expert clinical skills to conduct high quality research to benefit patients) and was awarded a Pre-Doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to undertake Masters level training and to work alongside the Oxford Cardiovascular Clinical Research Facility under the primary supervision of Professor Paul Leeson.

Sadie is a British Heart Foundation-funded researcher whose work focuses on leveraging large-scale echocardiography datasets, artificial intelligence, and novel imaging biomarkers to improve the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease. Her research includes investigating sex differences in echocardiographic assessment using the EVAREST and ECHOVision datasets and developing innovative imaging markers for heart valve disease.