Prof Gaskin has 20 years of senior academic experience, leading departments (Midwifery, Paramedic, Advanced Practice/CPD) and managing academic teams, leading undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD courses, coordinating research and knowledge exchange within the school of nursing and midwifery and empowering academic, clinical staff and students to engage in academic and research professional development. She has supervised many masters’ students and is currently supervising 5 PhD students. A Registered Children’s Nurse and Adult Nurse, Kerry worked in Children’s Cardiac Intensive Care, Paediatric Intensive Care and High Dependency Care at several specialist Children’s Cardiac Units and Children’s Hospitals in the UK before moving into academia in 2005. Kerry is a mixed-methods researcher with a particular interest in complex congenital heart disease and congenital cardiac nursing. Her research focuses on parental experiences and home assessment using an early warning tool called the Congenital Heart Assessment Tool (CHAT), to enable parents to identify signs of deterioration in their infant and to make prompt contact with the appropriate health care professional. She has led numerous pedagogical and clinical research studies and received funding through Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital Charity, SPARK The Midlands, NIHR Wessex ARC, NIHR i4iFAST, The Health Foundation and Heart Research UK. She Chaired the Congenital Cardiac Nurses Association (CCNA) UK (2000-2025), is an Associate Editor for Evidence Based Nursing (2020-ongoing) and was on the Editorial Board of Journal of Paramedic Practice (2009-2025) providing paediatric expertise.

Kate was born and educated in the UK and spent 20 years as a consultant in the NHS before re-locating to Australia with her family in 2024. Kate is now head of the Adult Congenital Service and Deputy Director of Cardiology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne. She has special interests in complex cardiac physiology in congenital heart disease, obstetric cardiology, transition from paediatric cardiology to adult services and assessment and monitoring of healthcare outcomes.

Professor Rachael Cordina is a clinical academic cardiologist with special interests in Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Pulmonary Hypertension, Indigenous Health, Exercise Physiology and Maternal Cardiology. She is a Head of the Adult Congenital Heart Service at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

A/Prof Dominica Zentner is an adult cardiologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. She is the lead of the multidisciplinary Cardiac Pregnancy Clinic which she co-founded in 2013.