Dr Rolf Gomes is a Brisbane-based cardiologist who Founded Heart of Australia in 2014. The mobile healthcare service provides frontline access to medical specialists and cardiac and respiratory testing in rural and remote communities through their fleet of custom-designed, mobile clinics.

Gemma is a Professor in Medicine at the University of Sydney and an Interventional Cardiologist at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. She is the Chair of the University of Sydney’s multi-disciplinary Cardiovascular Initiative. Gemma is committed to improving the care for heart attack patients, unravelling key mechanisms underlying susceptibility and response to heart attack, with studies extending from the bench to large cohort studies and clinical trials. Discoveries in her Laboratory have been published in leading journals including the Lancet, Circulation, JACC and European Heart Journal, with > 250 publications. Gemma is a principal investigator on grants >$42 Mill. Her discoveries and innovative strategies have resulted in a US patent, and 5 provisional patents spanning diagnostic and therapeutic fields. Gemma is founder and CSO for Australian start-ups Prokardia and Kardiomics, and the not-for-profit CAD Frontiers Pty Ltd. She was awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Excellence Award for Top Ranked Practitioner Fellow (Australia- 2018), NSW Ministerial Award for Cardiovascular Research Excellence (2019) and was the second female to be awarded the prestigious Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand RT Hall Prize for outstanding and sustained research achievement (2023). Gemma serves as a member of the Editorial Board of leading international journals including Circulation and Cardiovascular Research and an Associate Editor for Heart, Lung and Circulation. She is a passionate advocate for cardiovascular research, working as President of the Australian Cardiovascular Alliance with a national team to secure $220 Million Federal funding for the Mission for Cardiovascular Health, and to build new pathways for research to best serve the unmet health needs of Australians. She chairs the MRFF Mission (CV) Expert Advisory Panel. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and serves/has served as a non-executive Director on multiple community Boards, including the Heart Foundation. In 2023, Gemma was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM), in the Australia Day Honours.

Dr. Ling Zhang is a clinician researcher based at the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney. Her research focuses on empowering and supporting cardiac patients throughout their recovery and secondary prevention, with a particular emphasis on vulnerable populations, including those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Dr Tu Hao Tran completed his training in internal medicine and advanced training in Cardiology at Liverpool, Campbelltown, Concord and Nepean Hospitals. He is currently an Innovation and Electrophysiology Fellow at Campbelltown Hospital as where he spends his time creating digital solutions that enable large health data reconciliation using software and artificial intelligence (AI). He has a keen interest in the AI space and has developed courses in Machine Learning Fundamentals and written a chapter on leveraging AI in Preventative Cardiology. He has also chaired several international summits for the Medical Intelligence Society, an international community of clinicians with an interest in AI.

Daman Kaur is a Nurse Practitioner working in rural and remote region on east coast of New Zealand. Daman has passion for equity and access of care provision for all cardiac clients and Cardiac rehabilitation services. Daman has set up remote rural cardiology clinics in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand and received clinical innovation award for same. Digital health is another area Daman likes to explore for innovative models of care.

Dr Karice Hyun is a Senior Research Fellow (NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow 1) and a Biostatistician at the University of Sydney and Sydney Local Health District (Concord Hospital). Dr Hyun's work explores health inequities and aims to improve primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease by finding simple, affordable and scalable methods to reduce the gaps in care.