Dr. Emile Bacha is a board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon with a subspecialization in pediatric cardiac surgery. From 2000-2004, he was the Surgical Director of the Congenital Heart Center at the University of Chicago. From 2004-2009, he was Senior Associate in Cardiac Surgery at the Children's Hospital Boston and Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, as well as Cardiac Surgery Fellowship Program Director, and Director of the Pediatric Heart Valve Center. Since January 2010, Dr. Bacha has been Director of the Congenital and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery program at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Weill Cornell Medical School. In July 2011, he was appointed Chief of the Division of Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. In 2026, he became Chair of the Department of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief for NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia.

Andreas is the Clinical Lead of Invasive Electrophysiology at the Royal Children’s Hospital of Melbourne and a Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne as well as Honorary Fellow for the MCRI. He is the current chair of Paediatric EP in the APHRS. In his clinical and scientific work, he has been focusing on invasive electrophysiology, especially the use of 3D systems and other techniques to reduce radiation exposure. Andreas is the steering committee of the Australian research initiative about sudden death in the young and part of the Australian Genomics Cardiovascular Flagship Initiative.

Damien Kenny MD, FACC, FSCAI, FPICS completed his senior fellowship in Interventional Cardiology at the Rush Center for Congenital and Structural Heart Disease in Chicago, USA and served there as Assistant Professor of Pediatric and Internal Medicine and Director of the Hybrid Cathterization Suite until 2015. He is currently the Clinical Lead for Cardiology in the National Children’s Hospital in Dublin, Ireland. He is a Director of the PICS~AICS meeting and Vice-President of the PICS Society. He is a past Chair of the Congenital Track at the SCAI Annual Scientific Sessions. To date he has published over 150 peer reviewed articles and co-authored 20 chapters in International textbooks.

Professor David Celermajer is Head of Cardiology at RPA Hospital and Professor of Cardiology at the University of Sydney.

Clare O'Donnell is a Paediatric/Adult Congenital Cardiologist and Interventional Cardiologist. Clare works at Starship and Auckland City Hospitals in Auckland, New Zealand.

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