Tootie (Teofila) is the Director for Nursing & Midwifery at Southeast Genomic Medicine Service Alliance (GMSA) and a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Senior Clinical Practitioner Researcher at King's College London (KCL). Prior to this she was also the Chief Nurse of North Thames GMSA, Associate Director of Clinical Research at St Bartholomew's Hospital and Lead Nurse for Inherited Cardiac Conditions at Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital & King's College Hospital. She completed her PhD at KCL as an NIHR/HEE Clinical Doctoral Fellow. She is a member of the ACNAP Education Committee and is on the Board of the ESC Council on Cardiovascular Genomics. She is on the editorial board of the British Journal of Cardiac Nursing and a Trustee at Cardiomyopathy UK. Tootie is the Nurse Representative on the Association for Inherited Cardiac Conditions Council and a past President for the British Association for Nursing in Cardiovascular Care and was the inaugural Chair of the Research Forum.