Daniel Scherer completed medical and cardiology training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Following completion of cardiology training he joined the Atherosclerosis Imaging Corelab at SAHMRI and was involved with a number of multi-centre international intravascular plaque imaging trials lead by Professor Nicholls. To continue training in multimodality imaging he undertook multiple imaging fellowships including echocardiography, CMR, and CTCA, at Royal Adelaide Hospital, St. Vincent’s Melbourne and The Alfred. He currently works as an imaging cardiologist at Royal Adelaide Hospital where he is the head of echocardiography.

Dr Wang is a cardiologist who is currently the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Fellow at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health. Dr Wang has clinical expertise in heart failure and cardiovascular prevention. He has a prolific track record relative to career stage including first author publications in leading journals such as The Lancet, JAMA, JAMA Cardiology, Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, Journal of the American College of Cardiology and European Heart Journal. He was the inaugural recipient of Australia’s National Heart Foundation PhD Rising Star Award and his research has attracted extensive funding.

Professor Andrew Sindone has been involved in cardiac research, teaching and improving the lives of those living with cardiovascular disease for almost thirty years. He set up and continues to run the Heart Failure Unit at Concord Hospital with the Heart Failure Clinic, research, rehabilitation and outreach programs. He is involved in teaching medical students, junior doctors, General Practitioners and specialists, and ran a program to update specialists in the management of heart failure over a ten year period. Professor Sindone has received multiple awards and has been Principal Investigator in over 57 international multicentre clinical trials, has presented over 130 research papers and continues to publish in cardiovascular disease. He is a Co-chairman of the NSW Cardiovascular Expert Reference Group, member of the Heart Foundation of Australia, was on the Scientific Committee for the World Congress of Cardiology in 2002 and is co-author of the Australian, Asia-Pacific and Global Guidelines for the Management of Heart Failure. He is patron of multiple charities and assists the Italian Community in education and support of those with heart disease.

Dr Laura Yeates is a certified cardiac genetic counsellor with more than 19 years' experience, working in both research and clinical roles. In 2024, she completed her PhD in genetic counselling under the supervision of A/Prof Jodie Ingles at the Garvan Institute in Sydney, Australia. Her PhD focused on developing a support intervention for families affected by sudden cardiac death as well as well-being in cardiovascular genetic counsellors.

Clare O'Donnell is a Paediatric/Adult Congenital Cardiologist and Interventional Cardiologist. Clare works at Starship and Auckland City Hospitals in Auckland, New Zealand.

Cara Wasywich is an Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist based at Auckland Hospital. She is the current Clinical Director of the Auckland Hospital Cardiology Service.