Dr. Seema Mital is a Staff Cardiologist & the Head of Cardiovascular Research at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto, and a Senior Scientist at the SickKids Research Institute. She is also the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada & Robert M Freedom Chair of Cardiovascular Science, and the Scientific Co-Lead of the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research. She leads the Cardiac Precision Medicine program at SickKids that leverages genomics, stem cells, AI and digital technology to model disease, test therapies, and implement precision medicine including personalized decision support tools. Dr. Mital established the SickKids Heart Centre Biobank, a multi-centre biorepository for childhood onset heart disease with over 10,000 participants. She leads the ERAPerMed/CIHR funded PROCEED network for Personalized Genomics in congenital heart disease, the multi-centre international Precision Medicine in Cardiomyopathy (PRIMaCY) network, the CIHR-funded multi-centre INSERT-HCM study, co-leads the CIHR-funded Precision Medicine for Heart Failure in the Young (PRIORITY) project of the Canadian Heart Function Alliance, and is a PI on several NIH grants. She is Academic Project Lead for the Genome Canada funded SickKids Precision Child Health Sequencing project that will sequence 10,000 childhood genomes.

Associate Professor Kavitha Muthiah is a clinical and academic cardiologist specialising in Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Heart Transplant at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney with conjoint appointments at UNSW and the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute as Division Lead. She is current Chair of the Heart Failure Council for CSANZ and Associate Director of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplant Registry. Following her Phd studies, she completed three additional clinical fellowships in London, UK and in Melbourne. She has served as on consensus statements for the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplant (ISHLT). She has been recipient of the ISHLT Award in MCS Translational Research being the first female and first Australian recipient of this international award. In 2018, she was recipient of the Heart Foundation Innovation Award. She is current supervisor of PhD and honours students with over 80 peer-reviewed publications.