Dr Jay Baumwol has an interest in cardiomyopathy, advanced heart failure, cardiac transplantation, mechanical circulatory support, cardiac amyloidosis, and echocardiography. He graduated medicine with honours from the University of Western Australia, and has undertaken further training at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney, Toronto General Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto, Canada. He is a member of the WA Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Service at Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth.

Professor Susanna Price is a consultant cardiologist and intensivist based at Royal Brompton Hospital. She trained at King's College London, and continued training in cardiology and intensive care medicine at a number of centres, including St Thomas', St George's and Royal Brompton hospitals, London. During her cardiology training, she undertook a fellowship in echocardiography at the Thoraxcenter under Jos Roelandt. On completion of her training, she was awarded the Jill Dando GUCH fellowship, allowing her to train for a further two years in imaging and management of the critically ill grown-up congenital heart disease (GUCH) patients.

Professor David Kaye is Director of the Department of Cardiology at the Alfred Hospital and a senior member of the Advanced Heart Failure Service. He also leads the Cardiology Research Program at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute. Professor Kaye’s studies have centred around the progressive nature of heart failure and has identified a range of its fundamental contributing mechanisms. To this end his research work has been directed towards the development of improved approaches for the care of heart failure patients.

Dr Pavey is a cardiac anaesthetist practising at Fiona Stanley Hospital. He is a PhD candidate in the field of heart preservation and is Chair of the Heart & Lung Research institute of WA.

Dr Louise Naylor is a researcher and academic in the University of Western Australia’s School of Human Sciences and also an ESSA Accredited Exercise Physiologist. She believes exercise is medicine and can be used to treat, prevent or reduce the impact of chronic disease. Her research explores how exercise training can contribute to rehabilitating and improving health outcomes in individuals with, or at risk of, cardiovascular disease, survivors of childhood cancer and children with metabolic conditions. After completing her undergraduate degree and PhD at UWA, Dr Naylor commenced her research career working with both elite athletes and chronically ill individuals with conditions such as heart failure and obesity. Her research investigates how exercise can improve health and wellbeing, quality of life, depression and anxiety. In a growing and research-led field, her projects have spanned topics such as understanding how to optimise prescriptions for survivors of cancer, patients with heart failure, ageing men, and patients with diabetes. Her research further investigates the need for exercise programs to be personalised to be effective, and the difference between different individual responses to exercise programs and why some people don't respond at all. Dr Naylor is also involved in basic science research to add further mechanistic insights into the regulation of the cardiovascular system and generate a multifaceted understanding of cardiac and vascular exercise physiology. As an ESSA Accredited Exercise Physiologist, Dr Naylor works as a Senior Exercise Physiologist in the Cardiac Rehabilitation Service at Fiona Stanley Hospital.

Dr Sarah Gutman MBBS BMedSci FRACP PhD is Head of Cardiovascular MRI at The Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute and a cardiologist at The Alfred and St. Vincent's hospitals. She specialises in heart failure, transplantation and non-invasive imaging (including cardiac MRI, cardiac CT and echocardiography). Dr. Gutman’s research interests include the use of cardiac MRI in risk stratification of heart failure patients and treating obesity in patients with heart failure.

Prof McGiffin has now retired from cardiothoracic surgical practice which was dominated by thoracic transplantation, mechanical circulatory support and pulmonary endarterectomy. However, he continues to be active in research involving donor heart preservation with machine perfusion, developing an infection resistant driveline for ventricular assist devices and modelling of CTEPH physiology.