Leadership

Our charity is run by a diverse team of patients and relatives on a 'for patients, by patients' basis and are supported by our professional medical advisors.

The Chariry trustees are elected by our members and serve for a 3-year term.

Currently, five of our eight Trustees are patients who have had an aortic dissection. The remaining three Trustees are relatives of someone who had an aortic dissection - including two bereaved relatives.

These eight "experts by lived experience" are supported by our two professional medical advisors Mr. Geoff Tsang (Cardiac Surgery) and Dr. Emma Redfern (Emergency Medicine), and by the charity's Aortic Specialist Nurse, Emma Hope, all of whom have a high-level of specialist clinical expertise in the management of aortic dissection .

In undertaking the day-to-day work of the charity, the Trustees are supported by a Management Committee of patients and relatives, including Mark Lewis our Head of Research, and a growing team of committed volunteers, including Tony Webb who leads the global THINK AORTA campaign and Lisa Skinner our Bereavement Support Lead.

Together, the group we makes-up a dynamic yet friendly, approachable and compassionate Leadership Team with a single objective: to help everyone affected by aortic dissection in the UK & Ireland and to spread the THINK AORTA life-saving campaign to save lives globally.