Before joining The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) as the Division Head of Cardiovascular Surgery in 2019, David Barron was the Senior Cardiac Surgeon at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, UK. David had been a consultant (staff) at Birmingham Children’s Hospital since 1999. He graduated from St. Thomas’ Hospital in London, and had his cardiothoracic training at Papworth Hospital, Southampton, the Royal Brompton Hospital and Great Ormond Street. During his residency, he obtained a doctorate (MD) from Imperial College, London in biomechanical cardiac assist. He is dual qualified in both internal medicine and in cardiothoracic surgery. He was the lead for Congenital Cardiac Training in the UK and has been on the Executive of the British and European Cardiothoracic Societies. David was also a consultant at the Queen Elizabeth, University Hospital Birmingham for Adult Congenital Cardiac Surgery and Honorary Professor at the Department of Child Health, University of Birmingham.

Cameron completed Paediatric Cardiology training at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne and subspecialty fellowship in Paediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiac Catheterisation at the University of Alberta and Stollery Children’s Hospital, Edmonton, Canada. He was Interventional Cardiologist and Director of Paediatric Cardiac Catheterisation in Edmonton, and now works as an Interventional Paediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiologist at Perth Children’s Hospital and Fiona Stanley Hospital.

Dr Wilson trained at the University of Melbourne and completed advanced cardiology training through the Royal Melbourne Hospital, with a focus on Interventional Cardiology. He completed two overseas clinical fellowships, in Scotland (Edinburgh Heart Centre) and Canada (Toronto Congenital Cardiac Centre for Adults). He is a cardiologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, specializing in percutaneous coronary intervention, adult congenital heart disease and structural cardiac interventions. He is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Melbourne with a focus on congenital heart disease.

Nelson Alphonso is the Director of Cardiac Surgery at the Queensland Children's Hospital and co-director of Queensland Paediatric Research. He has over 100 publications in paediatric cardiac surgery. He is also the co-founder and Program Manager of the Australia New Zealand Congenital Outcomes Registry for Surgery (ANZCORS).