Professor Callaway is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Queensland; Director of Research in Women's and Newborn Services at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital; Co-Chair of the Queensland Maternal and Perinatal Quality Council; and General and Obstetric Physician. She continues to practice clinically in both obstetric and general medicine. She was awarded the Women’s Health Australasia Medal of Distinction for services to Women’s Health in 2022, and most recently, was named Researcher of the Year within Metro North Hospital and Health Service District. Professor Callaway has been ranked in the top 2% of most cited scientists globally (Scopus, Stanford University) with >180 publications. She has supervised 20 research higher degree scholars, 12 to completion. She has had >20 million dollars in research funding. Professor Callaway's research has been translated into a number of national and international guidelines. Prof Callaway's research has focussed on medical disorders of pregnancy, with a specific focus on metabolism and the developmental origins of adult health and disease. Her research has spanned public health, clinical research and has involved close collaboration with colleagues with skills in laboratory science.

Dr. Jessup is the Chief Science and Medical Officer of the American Heart Association and an Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She was the Chief Scientific Officer of the Leducq Foundation from January 2017 through August of 2018, before moving to the American Heart Association role. She practised heart failure and transplant cardiology for 30 years at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where she served in a variety of administrative roles, including Medical Chief of the Heart and Vascular program, and Clinical Chief of Cardiology. She has been a long-time volunteer of the AHA and was a member of the Board of Directors of the national AHA, and President from 2013-2014.

Dr Jennifer Sun is a second-year cardiology advanced trainee at The Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, with a special interest in multimodality imaging. Recent research works include looking into the clinical and echocardiographic predictors of heart failure admission post myocardial infarction, the incidence and follow up of extracardiac findings on CTCA, and updates in the pharmaceutical treatment of obesity.

Dr Nikki Bart is a heart failure and heart transplant cardiologist at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney and Clinical Faculty at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute.

Professor Patricia M. Davidson RN PhD is a Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She served as Vice Chancellor and President of the University of Wollongong from 2021-2024 and was previously dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in Baltimore in the United States. She is currently a member of the Research Australia board.