Ms Catriona Jennings

Catriona Jennings is a cardiovascular specialist research nurse. She was the European Research Nurse coordinator for EUROACTION, EUROASPIRE III and Aspire-2-Prevent in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, St Mary's Campus, the International Centre for Circulatory Health.

She read French for her first degree and subsequently trained as a nurse at Charing Cross Hospital. She then specialised in cardiac nursing and finally cardiac rehabilitation, leading a programme at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire.

She was responsible for coordinating the EUROACTION project in eight countries and 24 centres in Europe from its launch in 2002. She led the multidisciplinary London team who were responsible for training project staff and developing the health professional and educational materials. She also coordinated the third EUROASPIRE survey in 22 countries in Europe, and the British Cardiovascular Society UK based survey of preventive management in coronary patients and high risk individuals called Aspire-2-Prevent.

In her current role she is coordinating a second EUROACTION study called EUROACTION plus intensive smoking cessation with varenicline to be implemented in 4 countries including the UK. She also teaches on the Imperial College MSc in Preventive Cardiology where she leads the module on smoking cessation. She is currently writing her PhD on concordance for cardiovascular risk factors and concordance for change in families.