Tiny Jaarsma

Professor Tiny Jaarsma (RN NFESC FAHA FAAN) is a Professor in Caring Sciences at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Linköping, Sweden. She also has a part-time position at the University Medical Center in Utrecht (UMCUtrecht) Her research focuses on the consequences of heart failure for patients and their families and interventions to enhance their self-care. Her research has beenpublished in over 250 publications ranging from short practical communications to scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals. Professor Jaarsma was trained as a nurse in Groningen (NL) and worked with cardiac patients from 1988,on the cardiology ward and in the Heart Failure clinic. She received her Masters degree from the University of Maastricht in 1992, as part of a Nurse Fellowship of the Netherlands Heart Foundation. She studied for six months at the UCLA in 1993 and completed her doctoral degree in 1999, with a thesis entitled “Heart Failure: Nurses’ Care”. Her professional activities include membership of national and international committees and guidelines (ESC, AHA), reviewer and member of editorial boards of peer- reviewed journals. She was the founder and editor in chief of the European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing until 2022 and also served as the chair of the Science Committee of the ESC Council of Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professionals, involved in the Nursing Council of the AHA, and is a former board member of the Heart Failure Association of the ESC.