Betty Raman

Prof Betty Raman is an Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom and a board-certified cardiologist (from Adelaide, Australia) with expertise in cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) and inherited cardiac disorders. She is a British Heart Foundation Oxford CRE Transition Intermediate Clinical Research fellow at the Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, where she also undertook a DPhil in CMR and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Prof Raman has pioneered advanced CMR research in numerous cardiac diseases and won multiple prestigious early career research awards for her work. During the pandemic, she led national efforts to further cardiovascular insights into the impact of COVID-19, with key leadership roles in two UK-wide multi-centre MRI studies. Frequently invited to speak at international lectures, Prof Raman has promoted awareness of the diverse capabilities of CMR and other imaging modalities to a broad audience and has been at the forefront of innovative CMR applications. With multiple seminal high-impact publications, Prof Raman’s contributions to the field of cardiology and MRI range from efforts to employ mechanistic imaging endpoints in clinical trials; to identifying more precise and clinically useful CMR approaches to improve prognostic risk stratification in inherited cardiac diseases.