MD, MSc, MPH, FRCPC, FACC, FESC, FCCS Dr. Virani is Vice-President of Medical and Academic Affairs for the Provincial Health Services Authority in BC, Head of Cardiology at Providence Health Care, Physician Program Director for the Provincial Heart Centre at St. Paul’s Hospital and President of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society. He completed his internal medicine and cardiology training at UBC before embarking on a sub-specialization in heart failure and cardiac transplantation at Stanford University. He also has a Masters degree in Public Health from Columbia University with a focus on healthcare management. His professional interests include public policy related to health care delivery with specific reference to healthcare systems redesign and quality in the Canadian context. A key opinion leader for heart failure in Canada, Dr. Virani is Past-President of the Canadian Heart Failure Society and senior Co-Chair of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society’s Heart Failure Guidelines Panel. He also serves as Medical Director for HeartLife Foundation, Canada’s first and only patient-led national heart failure organization.

Professor Susanna Price is a consultant cardiologist and intensivist based at Royal Brompton Hospital. She trained at King's College London, and continued training in cardiology and intensive care medicine at a number of centres, including St Thomas', St George's and Royal Brompton hospitals, London. During her cardiology training, she undertook a fellowship in echocardiography at the Thoraxcenter under Jos Roelandt. On completion of her training, she was awarded the Jill Dando GUCH fellowship, allowing her to train for a further two years in imaging and management of the critically ill grown-up congenital heart disease (GUCH) patients.

Dr Victoria Delgado is currently the head of the cardiovascular imaging department of the Heart Institute at the University Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol in Badalona, Spain. She graduated from medical school at the University of Barcelona (Spain), completed her PhD at Leiden University. She is currently President of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging of the European Society of Cardiology. She is also president of the Scientific Commission Sciences de la Vie et de la Santé - 4 (SVS-4) of the F.R.S.-FNRS (Belgium) and has formed part of several grant selection panels. She has been Senior Editor of Circulation and Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography.

Roxana Mehran, MD, FACC, is an internationally renowned interventional cardiologist, clinical research expert, and trialist in the field of cardiovascular disease. She is among the most prolific researchers in the United States and is a globally respected leader of an academic research center focused on designing and implementing randomized clinical trials, outcomes research projects, and high-impact academic publications. She has focused on personalized medicine and developed individual risk scores for bleeding and acute kidney injury, and she regularly contributes to the development of clinical guidelines. With over 3,000 publications, she has been listed by Clarivate Analytics among the Most Cited Researchers – Top 1% and The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds (Thomson Reuters) for the past ten consecutive years, ranking among the top 50 researchers worldwide. Dr. Mehran currently serves as President (2026–2027) of the American College of Cardiology and leads The Lancet Commission on Women’s Cardiovascular Diseases, which aims to bridge gaps in scientific discovery, clinical trials, and care for women with cardiovascular disease. She is Director of the Women’s Heart and Vascular Center at Mount Sinai Heart, spearheading a program designed to meet the unique needs of women’s cardiovascular health. She also founded Women as One, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing opportunities for women in medicine. Dr. Mehran is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Ellis Island Medal of Honor; the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Silver Medal; the ESC Andreas Grüntzig Lecture Plaque; the Women in Cardiology Mentoring Award; the CRF Pulse-Setter Champion Award; the Jacobi Medallion from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; and, most recently, the ESC Gold Medal (2025) and the AHA Laennec Master Clinician Award (2025).