Dr. Devereaux is a cardiologist, perioperative care physician, and clinical epidemiologist. He is the Director of the Division of Perioperative Care at McMaster University. He is a Senior Scientist and the Scientific Leader of the Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine, and Surgical Research Group at the Population Health Research Institute (PHRI). Dr. Devereaux is a full Professor at McMaster University. He is the President of the Society of Perioperative Research and Care. Dr. Devereaux is the nominated Principal Applicant of the Pan-Canadian Accelerated Clinical Trials (ACT) Consortium, and he is the CEO and Scientific Director of the World Health Research Trust.

Professor Clara Chow is Academic Director of the Westmead Applied Research Centre (WARC), Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. She is a cardiologist and Clinical Lead of Community Based Cardiac Services at Westmead Hospital and is also a member of the Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) Governing Board, Sydney, Australia. Professor Chow is Director of the Australian Stroke and Heart Accelerator (ASHRA). Her recent award highlights include being a finalist for the NSW Premier’s Woman of the Year - Woman of Excellence Category - in 2024 and 2020 respectively, receiving a Research Australia Digital Health Technology – Highly Commended Award, becoming an Honour of Australia recipient as well as a Fellow of the AAHMS in 2023 and being honoured with a Telstra Health - Brilliant Woman in Digital Health Award in 2022. She holds an honorary appointment as the Charles Perkins Centre Westmead Academic Co-director and is past-President of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Professor Chow’s research focuses on the prevention of cardiovascular disease, innovation in the delivery of cardiovascular care and the evaluation of digital health interventions. She has expertise in the design, delivery and implementation of clinical trials. Her PhD from the University of Sydney, Australia was in cardiovascular epidemiology and international public Health and her Postdoc from McMaster University, Canada in clinical trials and cardiac imaging. She has over 250 publications including papers in internationally leading medical journals NEJM, JAMA and Lancet. She is supported by a NHMRC Investigator grant.

Professor David Newby is British Heart Foundation Duke of Edinburgh Chair of Cardiology at the University of Edinburgh, Director of Edinburgh Imaging facilities, and a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He has major interests in advanced imaging and clinical trials of cardiovascular disease and has been involved in several multicentre trials. He is Chief Investigator for the SCOT-HEART and SCOT-HEART 2 trials.

Dr Julee McDonagh is a Registered Nurse with >10 years of clinical experience in cardiology settings and a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Chronic and Complex Care Research, a collaborative clinical research centre between the University of Wollongong and Western Sydney LHD. She is also a proud descendant of the Cabrogal clan of the Darug First Nations people. Dr McDonagh’s research program focuses on the intersection of heart failure, frailty, cardiovascular disease, aging, and multimorbidity. She has published numerous high-impact, frailty and cardiovascular disease publications, including co-authoring the recently published ISHLT Consensus Statement regarding Frailty and Advanced Heart Failure. She has received over $2 million in competitive research funding as Chief Investigator ($1.12 million as CIA), including from the NSW OHMR, NHMRC and MRFF.

Fergus Stewart is a final year Advanced Trainee Cardiology Registrar at Wellington Hospital. He looks forward to pursuing further sub-specialty training in Interventional Cardiology.