A/Prof Mayooran Namasivayam is a Staff Specialist Cardiologist, Associate Director of Echocardiography and Interventional Echocardiography Specialist at the St Vincent’s Hospital Campus, Sydney, Conjoint Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW, Sydney and Faculty member of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute. Clinically, A/Prof Namasivayam manages patients across the spectrum of cardiovascular disease including valvular heart diseases, systolic and diastolic heart failure, cardiomyopathy and hypertension, and performs cardiac procedural imaging planning and guidance. A/Prof Namasivayam graduated medical school from the University of New South Wales with First Class Honours and subsequently completed specialist cardiology training at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. He completed a PhD in cardiovascular physiology at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, St Vincent’s Hospital and UNSW. Following this, he spent two years in Boston where he completed a Clinical and Research Fellowship in Advanced Echocardiography at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University. As Head of the Heart Valve Disease and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, A/Prof Namasivayam leads research into heart valve diseases combining his expertise in cardiovascular physiology, cardiac imaging and artificial intelligence analytics.

Professor Martin Ugander, MD, PhD, FCSANZ, is since 2019 Professor of Cardiac Imaging at the University of Sydney and Royal North Shore Hospital. His research spans non-invasive diagnostic methods in heart disease using MRI, CT, echocardiography, SPECT and PET imaging, as well ECG and emerging and sometimes wearable sensing technologies.

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.

A/Prof Johan Verjans is a clinician-scientist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Future Imaging Fellow at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML), and Platform Leader AI at SAHMRI. Trained via an MD-PhD at Maastricht University, he completed fellowships at UC Irvine, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and the University Medical Centre Utrecht, before joining the University of Adelaide in 2017. His subspecialty in prevention/lipids (RAH) and advanced cardiovascular imaging (Cardiac MRI and CT) at Jones Radiology. During his tenure as Deputy Director at AIML, the group grew from 2 to 40+ members, integrating clinical, biomedical, engineering and AI expertise to position Adelaide as a global leader in AI in healthcare. The group has won international technology challenges and partnered with Global teams at Roche, Siemens Healthineers, and Medtronic, earning a nomination as AI Centre in Medicine of the Year (AIMED 2022). His group develops methods in AI in systems biology and imaging, and AI implementation work, with collaborations with SA Pathology, SA Pharmacy, and multiple hospitals on landmark AI projects such as RapidX AI (world’s first AI RCT in Chest Pain), Automedic (SA Health’s largest AI deployment in Pharmacy), and Cardiomics(Automation of LDL guideline adherence). He has published 175+ papers, including NEJM, Circulation, JACC, JACC imaging, Nature Reviews Cardiology, and leading computer science venues CVPR, ICCV, IEEE TMI, MICCAI. HIs team won the first NIH global Medical VQA Challenge, early precursor of ChatGPT like models. A frequent keynote speaker at major cardiovascular and AI conferences, he has chaired national meetings, contributed to international AI in medicine guidelines, authored book chapters(incl first AI Book in Medicine), and serves on editorial boards including European Heart Journal Digital Health. He is a member of National Advisory Board of the Heart Foundation.