Professor Sabine Ernst qualified in medicine in Germany but also continued her training in the USA (Los Angeles and Boston) and Switzerland. In 2007, she moved to London and became licenced as a cardiologist specialist. Before joining the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, Professor Ernst was director of the magnetic navigation laboratory in Hamburg, Germany.
She holds the position of research lead in electrophysiology at Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust and became Professor of Practice at Imperial College London in 2019.
Areas of expertise
Professor Ernst is a cardiac electrophysiologist with special expertise in:
complex arrhythmias
atrial fibrillation
ventricular arrhythmia in both paediatric and adult patients.
Professor Ernst is one of the pioneers of remote magnetic navigation. She has established this technique from its initiation to it becoming a clinical routine procedure using state-of-the-art equipment, including advanced 3D-mapping techniques. Patients with congenital heart disease, complex anatomy and arrhythmias especially benefit from this technique and form a major part of Professor Ernst’s clinical work.
More recently, Professor Ernst’s research has focused on novel imaging techniques to visualise the autonomic nervous system. This aims to better understand the nervous system’s role in the development and management of cardiac arrhythmias.