Dr Emilia Nan Tie is a cardiologist at Alfred Health and Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute PhD candidate supported by NHMRC and National Heart Foundation scholarships. She completed advanced training across the Alfred, Peninsula Health, and Royal Melbourne Hospital, and holds an adjunct senior lectureship at Monash University. Dr Nan Tie led a prospective study examining the prevalence of inherited cardiomyopathies in patients with sub-epicardial scar on cardiac MRI: work recognised as a Cardiac Imaging Prize finalist and Graeme Sloman Research Prize winner at CSANZ 2025. Her broader research interests span cardiac imaging, haemodynamics, advanced heart failure, and cardiometabolic disease.

Dr. Stacey Peters is a cardiologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. She specializes in genetic cardiomyopathies. she conducted her PhD with Prof. Diane Fatkin, and her ongoing research continues to evaluate genotype-phenotype interactions and the role of environment factors in the natural history of dilated and arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathies.

Professor Jeanette Schulz-Menger is a cardiologist specializing in Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR), with experience in the field since 1996. She holds a University Professorship in Cardiology (“Noninvasive Imaging with a focus on CMR”) and leads one of Europe’s few high-throughput CMR centers. This includes a dedicated clinical CMR scanner at Helios Clinic Berlin as well as advanced research infrastructure, including 3T and 7T systems, at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. She has established the HELIOS-CMR network across Germany, enabling high-quality CMR in hospitals of varying sizes. In parallel, she has strengthened academic CMR by building a research network that connects CMR activities across all Charité campuses. Her group has developed a dedicated research outpatient clinic focusing on cardiomyopathies, inflammatory, and rare diseases, thereby bridging clinical care with translational imaging research. This work is closely linked to the research environment at the Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC) at Charité. Professor Schulz-Menger is deeply committed to CMR education and has founded a structured training program. She has authored more than 350 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and reviews. She also served as Co-Lead Author of the recently published ESC Guidelines on Myocarditis and Pericarditis. Originally from Berlin, she combines her professional passion for CMR with personal interests in theatre, literature, skiing, and spending time with family and friends.

A/Prof Belinda Gray is a Cardiologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at University of Sydney. She is a Heart Foundation Future Leadership Fellow. Dr Gray completed her PhD in Genetic Heart Disease at University of Sydney and postdoctoral fellowship in Inherited Cardiac Conditions and Sports Cardiology at St George’s, University of London, UK. Dr Gray’s research focuses on risk stratification, genetics and prevention of sudden cardiac death in the young, including young athletes.

Sean Lal is an Academic (basic sciences and translational research) in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney and a Consultant Cardiologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, where he is the Director of Acute Heart Failure Services.