Dr. Kanwar is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago and Director of their Heart Failure and Pulmonary Hypertension program. She currently serves as the Associate Editor for MCS for the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. With nearly 200 peer-reviewed publications, her area of research focus includes outcomes research in cardiogenic shock, temporary and durable mechanical circulatory support, as well as pulmonary hypertension.

Dr Jain is a Structural and Interventional Cardiologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. He has clinical and research interests in temporary mechanical circulatory support devices for high risk percutaneous interventions and cardiogenic shock.

Prof Dion Stub is an Interventional Cardiologist Alfred Hospital and Co-director of Centre Cardiovascular Research and Education in Therapeutics Monash University, with leadership positions on major pre-hospital and hospital cardiac registries in Victoria. Dion has published over 380 papers. He currently holds the National Heart Foundation Future Leader and NHMRC Fellowships to support his clinical research, and is cardiology medical advisor to Ambulance Victoria.

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 Tom Evens is the Executive Director of Medical Service and Research for New South Wales Ambulance, and a Staff Specialist in Emergency Medicine, and Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine. Tom holds the Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Survival portfolio for New South Wales Ambulance, and shares the leadership of the GoodSam Cardiac Responder programme for New South Wales.