Dr. Rebecca Hahn is Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, Irving Medical Center, Director of Interventional Echocardiography at the New York Presbyterian Hospital and Center of Chief Scientific Officer of the Echo Core Lab at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation. Dr. Hahn has dedicated her career to echocardiography and valvular heart disease. She has published over 450 articles and 11 book chapters on echocardiography and valvular heart disease, and has been on the writing committees for 4 American Society of Echocardiography recommendations/guidelines and 4 Academic Research Consortium (ARC) documents.

Dr. João L. Cavalcante is the Section Head for Cardiac Imaging at the Allina Health Minneapolis Heart Institute at the Abbott Northwestern Hospital, the largest cardiology group practice in the Twin Cities. He is also the Director of MHI Foundation Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center and Core Lab, overseeing many multicentric trials. His passion for multimodality Imaging and focus on valve and structural heart disease is seen through the lead of multiple RCT in advanced imaging, training of several international scholars, > 200 peer-reviewed original investigations, and several book chapters, training workshops, along with national and international lectures. He was recently named the Inaugural Innovation Chair of the Van Tassel Innovation Center at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation.

Dr Arun Dahiya is currently a Staff Cardiologist at Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) and Logan Hospital and previously worked as a staff cardiologist at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH). Arun completed advanced training in Cardiology from Princess Alexandra Hospital. He subsequently undertook a two-year advanced cardiovascular fellowship in multimodality imaging at the Cleveland Clinic, USA (July 2010-July 2012). He is a level three-trained specialist in Echocardiography, Cardiac CT and Cardiac MRI. He is training advanced trainees and cardiac imaging fellows in multimodality imaging.

Siobhan Boyle is a consultant cardiologist sub-specialising in multimodality imaging and obstetric cardiology. Siobhan completed physician exams in both the UK (MRCP) and Australia (FRACP) whilst undertaking basic physician training, followed by advanced physician training in cardiology at the Princess Alexandra and Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospitals. Dr Boyle gained experience in obstetric cardiology whilst working at both the Mater Hospital and the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospitals. Following completion of training in 2019, she completed a sub-specialty fellowship in echocardiography and cardiac CT at the Princess Alexandra Hospital before moving to London to complete further sub-specialty training in cardiac MRI and obstetric cardiology at the Royal Brompton Hospital in Chelsea. Since returning to Brisbane in 2022, Dr Boyle has appointments at both Logan Hospital and at The Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and is a Visiting Medical Officer at the Wesley Hospital. Her main areas of clinical practice and research are obstetric cardiology, with an ongoing commitment to improving maternal cardiovascular health, multimodality imaging in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac diseases, and exercise and preventative cardiology. Dr Boyle has multiple first-author publications in the medical literature and has presented her research nationally and internationally. Dr Boyle holds certification with National Board of Echocardiography and has accreditation in CT Coronary Angiography and Cardiac MRI. She is also a member of the Society of Cardiovascular CT and is a current serving committee member for the Society of Cardiovascular MR.

Dr. João L. Cavalcante is the Section Head for Cardiac Imaging at the Allina Health Minneapolis Heart Institute at the Abbott Northwestern Hospital, the largest cardiology group practice in the Twin Cities. He is also the Director of MHI Foundation Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center and Core Lab, overseeing many multicentric trials. His passion for multimodality Imaging and focus on valve and structural heart disease is seen through the lead of multiple RCT in advanced imaging, training of several international scholars, > 200 peer-reviewed original investigations, and several book chapters, training workshops, along with national and international lectures. He was recently named the Inaugural Innovation Chair of the Van Tassel Innovation Center at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation.

Professor Bucciarelli-Ducci received her undergraduate degree (2001) and postgraduate fellowship in cardiology (2005) from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy. She then undertook courses and fellowships at Northwestern University in Chicago, University of Zurich, Harvard Medical School, Oxford University and more recently an MSc in Health Economics from LSE. She worked at the Royal Brompton Hospital as a senior CMR clinical and research fellow in 2006-2010 and in 2012 she was awarded a PhD in CMR from the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College. She was appointed a consultant cardiologist at the Bristol Heart Institute and University of Bristol where she was headhunted in 2010 to build the CMR programme. In 2021 she then returned to Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals to lead the CMR clinical academic programme at Harefield. She is associate professor at King College London, School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging. Since 2019 she is also the CEO of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, the leading international association in the field of CMR with HQ in the USA. Previously, she held leadership positions in the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging and European Society of Cardiology with whom she continues to have strong collaborations. She is an invited expert by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) of the European Union (on contrast agents) and by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of United Nations (on medical imaging without use of radiations). She is in the scientific advisory board of the National Heart Centre Singapore and Centro de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) in Spain. She is the deputy editor of the European Heart Journal (one of the most important cardiology journals worldwide) for the cardiovascular imaging section. She is recipient of numerous prestigious prizes/ awards, including the NHS national Clinical Excellence Award (bronze)(2021), winner Imperial College Alumni Emerging Leaders award (2022), winner Excellence in Education Outstanding Mid-Career Educator Award, European Society of Cardiology (2023), Finalist Wesleyan Prize, Medical Women Federation UK (2017), Winner William Harvey Prize, Italian Society of Cardiology (2011), Finalist Melvin Judkins Young Clinical Imaging Investigator Award, American Heart Association (2010), and others.

Dr Johanne Neill is the Director of Cardiology at Ipswich hospital and Co-Chair of the Queensland Cardiac Clinical Network. She is an imaging Cardiologist with expertise in Cardiac MRI, Cardiac CT, Echocardiography and Nuclear Cardiology.

Professor Gregory M Scalia AM M.B.B.S. (Hons), M.Med.Sc., F.R.A.C.P., F.A.C.C., F.C.S.A.N.Z., F.A.S.E., J.P. Cardiologist - Awarded Member of the Order of Australia by King Charles III for “Contributions to cardiology, as a clinician, academic and mentor”, June 2024 - Director of Echocardiography, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia with leadership involvement in the Structural Heart Program - Senior consultant cardiologist at AdvaraHeartCare, Wesley Hospital Brisbane. - Professor of Medicine, University of Queensland.