Podcast, 44 mins
Hearts of Steel: Treating Valve Disease in Post-War Sheffield
Discover how Sheffield’s engineers and doctors pioneered heart disease solutions.
25 Jun 2025 09:00
Heart and circulatory diseases account for over 40% of deaths in Europe. This podcast describes the work of mid-19th century creative physicians and engineers who led Sheffield’s fight against circulatory diseases. The Steel City ‘engineering for heart health’ approach still continues today leading to major medical advances.
Credits
- Host: Professor Allan Pacey (Deputy Vice President and Deputy Dean of Biology, Medicine and Health at the University of Manchester)
- Contributor: Dr Will Parker (NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Cardiology at the University of Sheffield)
- Contributor: Dr Abdul Hameed
- Producer: Professor Sheila Francis (Faculty Director of One University Strategy Delivery at the University of Sheffield)
- Producer: Andrew Tattersall (Information Specialist at the University of Sheffield)
- Music: The Longbeards Beneath The Mountains by Justin Allan Arnold
- Music Promoted By: https://www.free-stock-music.com