Dr Michaela Scheuermann-Freestone

Dr Scheuermann-Freestone is a Consultant Cardiologist and works at the Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Basingstoke and Winchester. Apart from looking after patients with all general cardiology issues, she specialises in imaging and provides state-of-the-art transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography, stress echocardiography, cardiac MRI and cardiac CT.

Initially, she did her undergraduate training at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and did her higher degree of an MD at the Charité in Berlin, Germany, before doing a PhD at the University of Oxford in cardiac MRI.In that context, she trained in cardiac MRI at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London and at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Before embarking back into clinical life, she spent some time in academic Cardiology and has numerous publications particularly in cardiac MRI.

Her clinical training in Cardiology was performed in the Wessex Deanery including Winchester, Basingstoke, Salisbury and Southampton, and she held an Imaging Fellowship at the University of Southampton. She is on the Specialist Register for Cardiology with the GMC. She is a member of the British Cardiovascular Society, the British Society of Echocardiography, the British Society of Cardiovascular Imaging and the British and International Society of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance, respectively. She is part of the working group of Women in Cardiology of the British Cardiovascular Society.

Personal life

Outside work, she spends her free time with her husband who is a principal lecturer at Kingston University in Surrey and with her 2 children, shuttling around school, homework and extra-curricular activities. Apart from that, she tries to make time for cooking and baking and for playing tennis and squash as well as the Zumba classes she enjoys. She is fluent in English, German, French and Italian and enjoys travelling with her family.

Sees patients Age 15+