Suzanne is completing her thesis examining the optimisation of outcomes for CAD patients beyond the management of traditional cardiovascular risk factors, focussing on the early detection and treatment of subclinical atherosclerotic CAD. She has an academic and clinical background in pre-hospital emergency cardiovascular care, working with the American Heart Association, the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation and the Australian Resuscitation Council. She is now happily embracing the opportunity to undertake research to prevent cardiac arrests, instead of treating them.

Prof. Filippo Crea, FESC, was born in Cosenza, Italy on 19 September 1953. He graduated from Pisa Medical School with full honours in 1977 and passed the Postgraduate Boards in both Pulmonary and Cardiovascular Diseases, again with full honours, at Pisa Medical School in 1980 and 1983 respectively. During the whole of 1984 he was Research Fellow at the Division of Cardiology of the University of Florida, directed by Professor Richard C. Conti. From 1985 to 1991 he was Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant at the Cardiovascular Research Unit of the Hammersmith Hospital in London, directed by Professor Attilio Maseri. He returned to Italy upon his appointment as Chief of the Catheterization Laboratory at the Institute of Cardiology of the Catholic University of Rome. In 2000 he became Associate Professor of Cardiology and Chief of the Intensive and Sub-Intensive Care Unit. In 2001 he became Professor of Cardiology, Director of the Institute of Cardiology, Director of the Postgraduate School in Cardiology and of the PhD program in Clinical Research in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the Catholic University of Rome. From October 2008 to January 2020 he was Director of the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences. From February 2020 to October 2023 he was Director of the University Department of Cardiovascular and Pneumological Sciences. Since November 2023 he is Director of the Centre of Excellence in Cardiovascular Medicine at the Gemelli-Isola Tiberina Hospital. He is Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, founder and Past Chairman of the Working Group on Coronary Pathophysiology and Microcirculation, Past Member of the Education Committee, Past Member of the ESC Congress Program Committee, co-author of Guidelines on chronic coronary syndromes (2013), NSTEMI (2017), UDMI (2019). Since 2020 he is Editor-in-Chief of the “European Heart Journal” and since 2022 Chairman of ESC Publications Committee. In 1992 he received from Nobel Prize Professor Rita Levi Montalcini the Newburg Prize for his scientific contribution to the cardiovascular research. In 2013 he received the Arrigo Recordati International Prize for lifetime achievement in researching the pivotal role of microcirculation in systemic and organ diseases. In 2015 he delivered the 7th annual Robert L. Krakoff International Lecture in Cardiovascular Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University Medical School. His main field of interest is the study of mechanisms, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of ischemic heart disease. He is the author of more than 1500 publications in peer reviewed journals with an H-Index of 95.

Todd C. Villines, MD, FACC, FAHA, MSCCT is the Donald C. Barnes endowed Professor of Cardiology and Vice-Chief of the Cardiology Division at the University of Virginia where he is a cardiologist and researcher with a focus in multimodality cardiovascular imaging and prevention. Dr. Villines is currently the Executive Editor of JACC: Advances, and serves on the editorial boards of JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging and Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging. He is also Past-President of the Society of Cardiovascular CT, immediate-past Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cardiovascular CT, former member of the ACC Board of Governors, and past-Chair of both the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Imaging Section and the ACC Federal Cardiology Section. Dr. Villines has published over 300 peer-reviewed manuscripts, 4 books (as primary editor) and 12 book chapters focused primarily on cardiovascular prevention and atherosclerosis imaging using cardiac CT. Dr. Villines is a Distinguished Graduate from the U.S. Military Academy (West Point) and was a Colonel in the US Army Medical Corps, where he served as the cardiology fellowship Program Director at the Walter Reed Medical Center, was the Cardiology Consultant to the Army Surgeon General, and was awarded the Bronze Star.

Professor Stuart Grieve is the leader of the Imaging and Phenotyping Laboratory at the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney. He is currently the Parker Hughes Professor of Radiology at the University of Sydney and a clinical radiologist at St George Private Hospital. He also holds a clinical appointment at Macquarie University. He is an academic Radiologist and Imaging Scientist with a career focus of improving patient outcomes using imaging, his research program spans basic science, computational methods, clinical trials, clinical translation and strong partnerships with the healthcare industry, partnering with leading companies such as Siemens, Arterys, Circle, Ansys and GE to pursue more accurate “digital” strategies to better manage heart disease. He integrates imaging, physics, biology and computational advances to find better ways to measure disease. He completed a BSc (Hons I) at the USYD in 1996 in Biochemistry, followed by DPhil in Magnetic Resonance Imaging at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship from 1996-2000. He undertook two post-doctoral fellowships at Oxford in high-field NMR and cardiac MRI before returning to Australia to continue his research and undertake clinical training. He completed an MBBS(Hons) in 2006, then residency and Radiology Specialist training at RPAH between 2007-2012.

Abdul-Rahman Ihdayhid is an Interventional Cardiologist and Cardiac CT Specialist. Director of Cardiologist Research at Fiona Stanley Hospital. Interest in cardiac CT and computational modelling in coronary and structural interventions.

Professor Mahoney is a Bidjara man with family ties to Central West Queensland who has codesigned a range of cardiovascular disease, health service evaluation and prevention research projects with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisation partners and health services.

Prof Christian Hamilton-Craig multi-modality imaging cardiologist. Professor of Medicine University of Queensland & Griffith University . He is the chief guideline writer for the CSANZ Position Statement on Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring. He he has published over 150 scientific papers including citations in the AHA/ACC Valve Guidelines. He collects guitars and likes to surf.

Dr Katharine Bate completed her cardiology training and her PhD on novel cardiac biomarkers in 2023. She is currently doing post-doctoral research at the University of Sydney and working overseas in Canada at Royal Jubilee Hospital, completing her final year of electrophysiology training.

Gemma is a Professor in Medicine at the University of Sydney and an Interventional Cardiologist at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. She is the Chair of the University of Sydney’s multi-disciplinary Cardiovascular Initiative. Gemma is committed to improving the care for heart attack patients, unravelling key mechanisms underlying susceptibility and response to heart attack, with studies extending from the bench to large cohort studies and clinical trials. Discoveries in her Laboratory have been published in leading journals including the Lancet, Circulation, JACC and European Heart Journal, with > 250 publications. Gemma is a principal investigator on grants >$42 Mill. Her discoveries and innovative strategies have resulted in a US patent, and 5 provisional patents spanning diagnostic and therapeutic fields. Gemma is founder and CSO for Australian start-ups Prokardia and Kardiomics, and the not-for-profit CAD Frontiers Pty Ltd. She was awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Excellence Award for Top Ranked Practitioner Fellow (Australia- 2018), NSW Ministerial Award for Cardiovascular Research Excellence (2019) and was the second female to be awarded the prestigious Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand RT Hall Prize for outstanding and sustained research achievement (2023). Gemma serves as a member of the Editorial Board of leading international journals including Circulation and Cardiovascular Research and an Associate Editor for Heart, Lung and Circulation. She is a passionate advocate for cardiovascular research, working as President of the Australian Cardiovascular Alliance with a national team to secure $220 Million Federal funding for the Mission for Cardiovascular Health, and to build new pathways for research to best serve the unmet health needs of Australians. She chairs the MRFF Mission (CV) Expert Advisory Panel. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and serves/has served as a non-executive Director on multiple community Boards, including the Heart Foundation. In 2023, Gemma was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM), in the Australia Day Honours.

Professor Peter Psaltis is an academic Interventional and Preventative Cardiologist, holding a Level 3 National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellowship. He has faculty positions with the Central Adelaide Local Health Network, the University of Adelaide, and the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), where he is co-Deputy Director, co-leads the Lifelong Health Theme, and heads the Heart and Vascular Health Program. He is also Head of Interventional Cardiology at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Peter’s research spans basic, translational, and clinical science. He has received over $24 million in competitive grant funding and has published over 250 peer-reviewed works. He has also supervised 15 PhD and 12 Honours students to completion, with outstanding outcomes.