Peter Skillington received his undergraduate degree at the University of Tasmania, graduating in 1977. He completed his Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship in 1987. During his cardiothoracic training, he spent time at the Alfred Hospital, Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne and the Prince Charles Hospital, in Brisbane. He worked in cardiac and paediatric cardiac surgery at the Southampton General Hospital in the UK for 12 months. Then followed a six-month fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA followed by a further six-month fellowship at the Boston Children’s Hospital. He has been in continuous consultant cardiothoracic surgical practice at the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) since 1990. Between 1990-1995, he also worked as a sessional consultant at the Royal Children’s Hospital, and his private practice has been centred around the Epworth Hospital, Richmond. His major interests have been in aortic valve replacement, where he has pioneered the Ross procedure in Australia. His other main interest has been adult congenital cardiac surgery, where he has grown the adult congenital service at RMH from zero to now performing approximately 60 cases per year. Between 2001 and 2003, he served as the President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS). He was one of the Founders of the ANZSCTS Cardiac Surgery Database. He occupied many positions within the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS), including being Chairman of the FRACS Cardiothoracic Training Board of Studies. He was Director of the RMH Cardiothoracic Surgery Unit between 2020 to 2025. He continues to work at RMH in an Honorary Teaching role. He has been an author on 70 peer-reviewed publications and has given over 100 presentations at national and international meetings, as well as several invited lectures at international meetings.

Gavin is an advanced trainee in Cardiology from Western Australia and currently undertaking his Masters of Clinical Research at the University of Western Australia for which this project stems. He is passionate about clinical cardiology and in particular, multimodal cardiac imaging.

Adam Belay is a PhD student at the University of Melbourne, where he began his PhD studies on June 2024. His research focuses on Air Pollution and Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease. He holds both a bachelor's and a master's degree in nursing. Adam has published more than 32 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and actively reviews manuscripts for various academic journals.

Jason Chami is an intern at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, and a PhD candidate under the supervision of Prof David Celermajer. He was a Provost's Scholar at Worcester College Oxford in 2020, and graduated Sydney Medical School in 2024. He is now working with Professor Celermajer to develop a new bi-national registry of congenital heart disease in Australia and New Zealand.

Dr Anupam Rao is a Cardiology Research Fellow at Canberra Hospital, with a keen interest in population health, general cardiology, artificial intelligence and academia.

A/Prof Rebecca Kozor is a physician-researcher with roles as a consultant cardiologist at Royal North Shore Hospital Sydney and as Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. She has specialist expertise in cardiac imaging, particularly cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging.

A/Prof Isuru Ranasinghe is a Senior Staff Cardiologist at The Prince Charles Hospital and the Northside Clinical Unit of the Faculty of Medicine at The University of Queensland.