Peter Kistler is the head of electrophysiology at the Alfred Hospital and head of clinical electrophysiology research at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne. Peter is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Melbourne and Monash Universities. He has made a substantial contribution to the field of atrial arrhythmias with 290 publications, 22124 citations and supervised 21 PhD students. He is Chair of the AF ablation guidelines for CSANZ and recipient of the 2020 RT Hall Prize. Peter is an invited speaker at the ESC, American Heart Association, ACC, Heart Rhythm Society in the USA and Asia-Pacific Heart Rhythm Society.

Stuart Thomas is the clinical lead for electrophysiology at Westmead Hospital in Sydney and a clinical academic at University of Sydney. He is a past Chairman of the Electrophysiology and Pacing Council of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand and a Cardiac Society Board Member from 2009 to 2012. Dr Thomas was also a director of the NSW Heart Foundation and is a Fellow of the Australian Heart Foundation.

Professor Jonathan Kalman is an NHMRC practitioner fellow who is head of the Department of Heart Rhythm Disorders at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Professor Kalman has a national and international reputation as a leader in the field of atrial arrhythmias and has authored over 430 peer-reviewed publications, more than 40 book chapters and delivered over 250 invited lectures at national and international meetings. His areas of research interest include mechanisms of atrial arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation techniques and outcomes and the impact of risk factors on atrial remodelling and atrial arrhythmias. Professor Kalman served on the scientific committee of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand for 10 years; 6 as chairman, is the immediate past president of the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society having also served for 4 years as scientific chair and is the international member of the Board of Trustees of The North American Heart Rhythm Society. Professor Kalman serves on the editorial board of 12 international cardiology journals including Circulation, JACC and The European Heart Journal. He is an associate editor of JACC-Clinical Electrophysiology. Professor Kalman has received the Simon Dack Award of the Journal of The American College of Cardiology 2014 for outstanding scholarship and service to the Journal, delivered the Paul Wood lecture to the British Cardiovascular Society (2015) and was the keynote Intercontinental lecturer of The European Heart Rhythm Society in 2017. He has also been awarded the Eric Susman prize (2006) of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the R.T. Hall prize (2003) of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand in recognition of sustained and outstanding research achievement. He has trained a generation of Australian electrophysiologists. In 2018 he was awarded an Officer of The Order of Australia for services to cardiology.