As you know I am on a journey to embed digital and computing sciences into my own research. As such I was very happy when I was approached to have Lars as a guest! He is a co-founder of Corti and from everything I could read, listen and watch about him, research is at the core of what he aims to create. We take a deep dive into the differences in research in computing and health sciences, how synthetic data may make health care more inclusive, and how digital health solutions should be evaluated.

Top 3 Takeaways

1)     Anything I cannot create, I do not understand.

2)     The only way to get better is to be deep in research

3)     Evaluation is tricky – intersectoral collaboration will increase your evaluative ability.

Bio: Lars Maaløe is co-founder and CTO of Corti. He holds a MS and PhD in Machine Learning from the Technical University of Denmark. He was awarded PhD of the year by the department for Applied Mathematics and Computer Science and has published at top machine learning venues: ICML, NeurIPS etc. His primary research domain is in semi-supervised and unsupervised machine learning.

Find Lars online:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/larsmaaloe/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/corti/

Read Lars’s Research:

1)     FactsR: A Safer Method for Producing High Quality Healthcare Documentation

2)     An Unsupervised Approach to Achieve Supervised-Level Explainability in Healthcare Records

3)     Normalized AOPC: Fixing Misleading Faithfulness Metrics for Feature Attribution Explainability 

4)     Do End-to-End Speech Recognition Models Care About Context

Lars is reading:

1)     Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

2)     Reagan: His Life and Legend by Max Boot

3)     The Optimist: Sam Altman, Open AI, and the Race to Invent the Future by Keach Hagey

Resources mentioned:

Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/

Paper on the benefit to mixed model learning: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18593

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I meet Angela at the Heart Failure Association Conference in 2024 (https://youtu.be/P5wkXW_5I6A). I was impressed by her research and wanted to hear more about her journey into research. Listen to find out how Angela found her research soul and how an international collaboration started with a thumbs up on a Facebook post!

Top 3 Takeaways

1)     Follow your passions and just jump!

2)     Bring your whole self to your research.

3)     Find your research soul.

Bio: Dr. Angela Durante is an Assistant Professor at the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Health Science at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa and a nurse researcher at Fondazione Monasterio. She earned her PhD from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” in 2019. In 2020, Dr. Durante received the prestigious "CVSN Clinical Article of the Year Award" from the American Heart Association for her work on caregivers’ contributions to self-care in heart failure patients. As a Fulbright Scholar in 2022, she expanded her international research collaborations. She has authored numerous high-impact scientific publications, contributing to advancements in evidence-based nursing practice for cardiovascular care. Her work aims to bridge clinical practice and research, fostering innovative approaches to patient-centered care and healthcare policy.

Find Angela online:

X: @Angie_Durante89

Google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=jE2aLP0AAAAJ&hl=it

Read Angela’s Research:

1)     Durante et. al. 2019 https://journals.lww.com/jcnjournal/abstract/2019/03000/caregiver_contribution_to_self_care_in_patients.18.aspx

2)     Younas et al. 2019 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jan.14264

3)     Graven et. al. 2024 https://journals.lww.com/jcnjournal/abstract/2024/05000/self_care_problems_and_management_strategies.4.aspx

4)     Buck et. al. 2024 https://journals.lww.com/jcnjournal/abstract/2024/05000/caregivers__contributions_to_heart_failure.10.aspx

Angela is reading: Il lupo di Skopje by Annick Emdin

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I attended the Association of Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professionals (ACNAP) conference. The ACNAP conference has a very special vibe. Between presenting my post-doctoral research I managed to make the time to have four short conversations with a variety of people who were also presenting at #ACNAP2025.

Mairead Lehane is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner from Cork University Hospital Integrated Care presentd two posters. She shared how “UPBEAT” was developed for those with HFpEF (https://esc365.escardio.org/presentation/302090). Her reason for attending ACNAP: the additional perspectives gained from listening to other health professionals from around the world helps to inspire and refine your clinical practice.

Assistant Professor Angela Massouh from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. Her ESC profile will take you to all her work presented at this conference (https://esc365.escardio.org/person/144105) In our conversation she focused on the work she is presenting on caregiver burnout (https://esc365.escardio.org/presentation/302035). Her reason for attending ACNAP: it is an opportunity to network and collaborate that grew her career.

Andreas Dirksen is an Advance Nurse Practitioner from the University Hospital in Frankfurt. He was presenting a clinical case from his own clinical practice focused on the subtle red flags of Amyloidosis (https://esc365.escardio.org/person/261708). His reason for attending ACNAP: Why not? Bring your clinical case as that will open the door to collaborations, networking and mentorship.

Professor Robyn Gallagher from the University of Sydney in Australia. Check out her ESC profile (https://esc365.escardio.org/person/8180). We spoke about her presentation cognitive dysfunction in women with cardiovascular conditions (https://esc365.escardio.org/presentation/292211). Her reason for being at ACNAP: it’s the place where clinicians and early career researchers are supported to share their research and evaluation work.

If you want to see more about what happened at this conference check out the #ACNAP2025 on Instagram, X, and LinkedIn.

The podcast content is the personal experiences of the host (Dr Rosalynn Austin) and guests (Mairead Lehane, Angela Massouh, Andreas Dirksen, and Robyn Gallagher) and not that of any of their affiliated institutions or the European Society of Cardiology.

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DJI Osmo pocket 3

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Ada Tang and I were at University of Toronto together back at the beginning of our research journeys. She recently became a professor and I wanted to find out more about her research journey in Canada. She really made me think, do you need to be a clinical academic to retain your connection to patients to develop impactful research? Listen to find out what she thinks and how she is building an impactful spectrum of research focused on exercise to improve health and function following a stroke.

Top 3 Takeaways

1) Research does not have to be a part of the plan

3) You do not have to be a clinical academic to have clinical impact

3) Translation and implementation of your research is crucial

Bio: Ada Tang is a physical therapist, Professor and Assistant Dean (Rehabilitation Science) in the School of Rehabilitation Science, and a McMaster University Scholar. Dr Tang and the MacStroke Canada research team are focused on the impact of exercise on cardiovascular health, fitness, and function in people living with stroke and other conditions. Dr. Tang and her team incorporate important considerations of sex, gender, and other variables related to recovery after stroke, always with a focus on equity, diversity and inclusion, along with environmental sustainability. Dr Tang has been recognized as a YWCA Woman of Distinction for her work, previous held Clinician-Scientist awards (Phase 1 and Phase 2) with the Ontario Heart & Stroke Foundation, and is an associate editor with Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair.

Find Ada online:

X: @MacStrokeCan (also on Facebook and Instagram)

Websites: https://experts.mcmaster.ca/display/atang

https://srs.healthsci.mcmaster.ca/research/macstroke/

Read Ada’s Research:

1)     Noguchi et al 2024 DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2024-108476

2)     Wiley et al 2024 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0308519

3)     Moncion et al 2024 doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.124.046564

4)     Moncion et al 2024 DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2023-107956

Stroke aerobic exercise implementation toolkit: https://kite-uhn.com/START

Ada is reading:

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

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Submitting an abstract to a large international conference can feel intimidating. The ESC Heart Failure Association Congress in Belgrade had around 5000 attendees! While I presented some of my post-doc research there I also spoke with several nurses about their experience of presenting at this congress. From first-timers to invited guest speakers this BONUS episode has many perspectives and loads top tips!

Martha Kyriakou

A post-doctoral nurse researcher presented her pragmatic multicentre randomised control trial to evaluate the effectiveness of and individualised SUPPORTIVE care multi-disciplinary team management program for people with heart failure. It was her first time presenting a moderated poster at the heart failure association congress

Top tips: attending conference helps improve your knowledge and network with other nurse researchers interested in heart failure.

Check out her poster and abstract on the ESC365 platform: https://esc365.escardio.org/presentation/300162

Cathy Farrell

Her poster answers the question; where are the women in heart failure clinical care pathways? As a sole nurse in a small hospital attending conferences helped her find her tribe to motivate her to do more service evaluation and real-world research in the heart failure clinical environment.

Top tips: reach out locally and find a friend. If you can’t find a friend to come with you “feel the fear” and just come, you’ll find a friend there.

If you are a member of ESC you can check out her abstract and poster here: https://esc365.escardio.org/presentation/300161

Follow on X (4) Cathy Farrell (@cathy_donegal) / X

Tamar Meizner

Tamar is a nurse researcher who presented a moderated poster on the remote monitoring clinic in Isreal.

Top tips: 1) Find a supportive mentor who can encourage and support you as a nurse to start your research journey. 2) Think out of the box, believe that you can do something more.

Check out her abstract and poster here: https://esc365.escardio.org/presentation/299546

Norma Caples:

Norma Caples is a PhD candidate who presented both on the update heart failure nurse curriculum and some of her own research. Her research is focused on a digital application aimed to help patients track their weight and to respond to those changes appropriately.

Top tips:1) Turns out a lot of what nurses do is research, all you need to do is write it up and share it at a conference. 2) Start looking now for supportive options to help you attend the next conference.

Check out her poster and abstract: https://esc365.escardio.org/presentation/300009

Watch her oral presenation on nurse education https://esc365.escardio.org/Heart-Failure/programme?text=Norma&docType=All&days=2025-05-17&page=1&vue=cards&v=S13228-heart-failure-nurse-education-in-europe

Prof Lis Neubeck

At this conference she was an invited speaker asked to present on telemonitoring in heart failure patients.

Top tips: 1) Start by attending a smaller more local conference as a entry point for getting to the bigger conferences. 2) Start you research journey by auditing and evaluating what you do in your clinic.

Watch her presentation on heart failure patient telemonitoring (from 16:21)

https://esc365.escardio.org/Heart-Failure/programme?text=Lis&docType=All&days=2025-05-18&page=1&vue=cards&v=S13232-how-to-implement-a-successful-telemedicine-program-in-heart-failure

This podcast is the personal opinions of Dr Rosalynn Austin and her guests (Martha Kyriakou, Cathy Farrell, Tamar Meizner, Norma Caples, and Prof Lis Neubeck) and not of any of their affiliated institutions.

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I met Dr Diane Ashiru-Oredope at a post-doctoral event and I was impressed by her ability to advocate for unheard voices. If you think you are busy, check out this episode to learn top tips on NOT balancing everything!

Top 3 Takeaways

1)     You journey into research is as unique as you are

2)     Follow a lead and just start researching

3)     Urgency: critical results or time sensitive results

Bio: Dr Diane Ashiru-Oredope, a Credentialed Consultant Pharmacist is Lead Pharmacist for the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Healthcare Associated Infections, UK Health Security Agency. She is also Deputy Chief Scientist for Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) and Honorary Chair & Professor of Pharmaceutical Public Health at University of Nottingham. An antimicrobial pharmacist by background, Diane has led several projects that have shaped national and international policy in tackling AMR. Diane is research active, successfully leading or significantly contributing to more than 120 peer-review publications as well as delivering several invited presentations nationally and globally. She was recently awarded a 4-year NIHR Senior Clinical and Practitioner Research Award.

Find Diane online:

X: https://x.com/DrDianeAshiru

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diane-ashiru/

BlueSky - dianeashiru.bsky.social

Read Diane’s Research:

1)     https://academic.oup.com/ijpp/article-abstract/32/5/337/7742802?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

2)     https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s15010-024-02235-8

3)     https://academic.oup.com/jac/article/78/10/2387/7246202?login=false

4)     https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11095-008-9635-y

Diane is reading:

Bible

Resources discussed

R programming: https://youtu.be/FY8BISK5DpM?si=ZOzeHMIzbxqjJXJR

Follow  ⁨@RProgramming101⁩ 

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I was honouredto hear about Dr Tootie Bueser’s journey into research. Her inspiration was not a colleague, research delivery, or a professor! Curious? You need to listen to find out was research in the genes or this genomic nurse researcher?

Top 3 Takeaways

1)     Is research in your genes?

2)     Try new things to increase your world view

3)     Professional relationships in your research journey will grow and change with you

Bio: Tootie is a Clinical Academic role based at King’s College London (KCL) in the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care as part of an NIHR Senior Clinical Practitioner Research award. Her research interests are in inherited cardiac conditions (ICCs) and genomics. Tootie is also the Director for Nursing & Midwifery at Southeast Genomic Medicine Service Alliance (SEGMSA). She is responsible for supporting the embedding of genomics into Nursing and Midwifery practice across the region. Tootie completed her PhD at KCL as an NIHR/HEE Clinical Doctoral Fellow, and her research project focused on supporting patients and family members impacted by ICCs. Tootie is a founding member of the Filipino Senior Nurses Alliance.

Find Tootie online:

Twitter/X: @2tbueser

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/teofila-tootie-bueser-241b4412a?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_contact_details%3B7zolsNWATNmJdsLt%2BGdNNg%3D%3D

Read Tootie’s Research:

1)     https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/9/e073130.long

2)     https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31182-X/fulltext

3)     https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2035790

4)     https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6517009/

Tootie is reading:

What I Ate in a Year by Stanely Tucci

Resources discussed

Professor Patricia Davidson https://scholars.uow.edu.au/patricia-davidson

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Today’s episode is a little different, Hilary Lewis (Occupational Therapist) shines a spotlight on the method, Focused Ethnography. She is using this method in her PhD and in addition to sharing her journey into research she also teaches us about focused ethnography and the value it is bringing to her PhD.

Top 3 Takeaways

1)     Never too late

2)     Try different methods

3)     Build your professional evidence base

Bio: Hilary Lewis is an occupational therapist and psychotherapist, with a special interest in persistent physical symptoms and multiple long-term conditions. She worked as a therapist in a range of clinical, managerial and leadership positions, in physical and mental health NHS settings, mainly in Liaison Psychiatry services. After completing a HEE/NIHR Pre-doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship in 2020, she is now an NIHR Doctoral Clinical Academic Fellow, within Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, due for completion in 2026. Hilary is interested in multidisciplinary treatment of persistent physical symptoms (PPS), particularly rehabilitation for those people with moderate-severe difficulties who have not been helped by health care services. Her current interests are around how underdeveloped parts of treatment (such as occupational therapy and physiotherapy) can be delivered effectively alongside more established approaches such as psychological therapy. 

Find Hilary online:

https://medicinehealth.leeds.ac.uk/medicine/staff/2365/hilary-lewis

Read Hilary’s Research:

1)     Recently published: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09638288.2024.2420833

2)     Multidisciplinary rehabilitation of patients with persistent physical symptoms https://doi.org/10.12968/ijtr.2022.0143

Hilary is reading:

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

Resources discussed

Miro: used to create Mind Maps, diagrams, flowcharts. https://miro.com/

Prof Alison Pilnik’s episode https://youtu.be/DHYniie64OY

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/RosalynnAustin

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In honour of February being heart health month Professor Anna Strömberg joined me from Sweden, to share her research journey. She has not 1 but 3 roles she balances as a clinical academic nurse! Heart Failure Nurse Specialist, Associate Dean, and Professor of Nursing!! She shares how her PhD gave her the skills to use data as a powerful tool and how that shaped her research journey.

Top 3 Takeaways

1)     Data is a tool to demonstrate the power of your clinical work

2)     Research can be love at first sight

3)     Clinical academic success is a team sport

Bio: Anna Strömberg is the associate dean of research at the medical faculty at Linköping University. She leads the research education of 500 PhD students at the medical faculty and is responsible for the clinical research. She is also a professor of nursing and leads a research group with 10 ongoing PhD students (3 as main supervisor, 7 as co-supervisor) and 2 post docs. She is also a heart failure nurse specialist at Linköping University hospital.

Her research focuses on developing interventions for rehabilitation and psycho-educational support to persons with long-term cardiac illness and their families. At present her research studies focus on evaluating and implementing eHealth tools to support self-care and involves: (1) interventions using tele-rehabilitation and exergaming to improve physical activity in vulnerable and frail patients with cardiac disease, (2) evaluations of different types of multidisciplinary disease management programs, (3) interventions to support family members/caregivers using eHealth, and (4) development of patient reported outcome measures (PROM) to assess self-care, quality of life, perceived control, symptoms, bodily concerns, continuity of care and participation in care.

She has published more than 300 scientific papers in peer-review journals, including research articles, systematic reviews, state-of-the-art papers, editorials, and international guidelines.

Anna Strömberg has long experience of international research collaboration working mainly with researchers in the US, and many countries in Europe, but also with Asia and Australia.

Find Anna online:

https://liu.se/en/employee/annst40

Read Anna’s Research:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vksxtC4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Anna is reading:

1) Stacken av Annika Norlin (will be available in English translation spring 2025)

2) 1793 The wolf and the watchman by Nicklas Natt och Day (In English and Swedish)

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Dr Oladayo Bifarin a clinical academic mental health nurse and NIHR senior research leader. From how writing is like “vomiting on paper” to how the hierarchies in research create systemic labels we covered a lot of topics. I really valued his recommendations and perspectives for nurse researchers. Only listen if you are prepared to be challenged.

Top 3 Takeaways

1)     Talent-spotting, stay close those who support you and pay their support forward

2)     Don’t complain, do a PhD

3)     Don’t try and do it all, just collaborate

Bio: Dr Oladayo Bifarin is a Clinical Academic as Registered Mental Health Nurse. He focuses on applied healthcare research, focusing on mental health care pathways across the lifespan. HIs work explores how cultural dimensions shape caregiving systems, adopting an intersectionality framework to address health inequalities. He is an engaged scholar, fostering co-production and inclusivity to create opportunities for others. He leads initiatives that promote collaboration and inclusivity. He aims to advance accessibility in mental health research, ensuring underserved groups can participate in and benefit from research. He is passionate about increasing research capacity among Nurses, Midwives, and Allied Health Professionals. As an NIHR Senior Research Leader, he is determined to enable a system that embeds research into practice, promoting patient-centred innovation and fostering diversity in mental health care. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing at Liverpool John Moores University and the Research Effectiveness Lead at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.

Find Oladayo online:

X: @bifarin

LinkedIn: Oladayo Bifarin

Read Oladayo’s Research (his top 4 at time of recording):

1)     https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpm.13092 ” 

2)     https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nin.12630

3)     https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1122396/full

4)     https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/gps.5887

Oladayo is reading:

Deep Work by Cal Newport

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