Christopher M. Kramer, MD, FACC, received his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, and completed his residency and chief residency in internal medicine, and fellowship in cardiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. His first faculty appointment was at Allegheny General Hospital, then MCP/Hahnemann University School of Medicine, where he directed the cardiology fellowship. He then moved to the University of Virginia School of Medicine, where in 2019 he was named the George A. Beller/Lantheus Medical Imaging Distinguished Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, and Medical Director of the Heart and Vascular Science Line. Kramer's principal research interest has been the application of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) to the cardiovascular system in clinical and translational studies. Prior to serving as ACC President, Kramer served as President of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR), ACC Treasurer and Vice President, Chair of ACC's Imaging Council, and Chair of the Clinical and Integrative Cardiovascular Sciences NIH study section. Kramer was an associate editor at JACC and previously was Executive Editor of JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Circulation, Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging and Vascular Medicine. Kramer is also a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, Association of University Cardiologists and American Association of Physicians. He received the Gold Medal from the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in 2015 and was named a Distinguished Mentor by the ACC in 2021. Chris is joining this year's ASM representing the American College of Cardiology, in his role as President.

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.

Professor Liza Thomas is a Conjoint Professor at Sydney University, Adjunct Professor University of New South Wales. and Clinical Lead for cardiac imaging at Westmead Hospital. Her research focuses on echocardiography; specific interests include imaging for the assessment of atrial dynamics and function, diastolic function, chemotherapy induced cardiomyopathy, amyloid and Fabry cardiomyopathies and cardiac involvement in metabolic disease and chronic kidney disease. Professor Thomas is actively involved in undergraduate/postgraduate medical student and sonographer education. She supervises several PhD and Masters students. She is an section editor for Heart, Lung and Circulation and on the editorial board for JACC CV Imaging and JASE. Liza has been invited to present her work at national and international meetings and has published extensively

Adrian Chong is a cardiologist at the Princess Alexandra and Mater Hospitals in Brisbane.

David Prior is Clinical Director of Cardiology at Albury Wodonga Health, a Cardiologist and former Director of Non-invasive Cardiac Imaging at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne and Associate Professor at The University of Melbourne. Long term clinical and research interests include echocardiography in heart failure, pulmonary hypertension and sports cardiology.

She is the senior cardiac scientist and educator at the Cardiology Department of Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. She is also qualified in general ultrasonography. She has more than 25 years of experience in echocardiography. She is heavily involved in education, training and research. She is responsible for training of student echosonograhers and advanced cardiology registrars. She acquired her Master degree in Medical Ultrasound in 2007. She has recently finished her PhD study at the University of Queensland in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Her areas of interest in her research are in myocardial mechanics in different types of cardiomyopathy.