Dr Julia Grapsa is a consultant cardiologist at Guys and St Thomas and holds an academic position as associate professor in cardiology. She is specialised in multimodality imaging and valvular heart disease. She was the founding editor in chief, for JACC Case Reports, under American College of Cardiology. She is now a senior editor for European Heart Journal- Imaging Methods and Practice while she has served in the editorial boards of multiple cardiology journals. She chairs the women in imaging task force under the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI), European Society of Cardiology (ESC). She has more than 145 manuscripts in peer reviewed journals.