Jackie Colgan has over 20 years of experience in acute cardiology nursing, serving as a Clinical Nurse Consultant at Central Coast Local Health District. She currently works in Digital Health, supporting the SDPR rollout. Originally trained in the UK, her MPhil research focused on using videos to assist nurses with rare procedures. Her project involved codesigning video procedures to support healthcare professionals during infrequent cardiac procedures, funded by an NSW Nursing and Midwifery Office Innovation Scholarship and a Caring for the Coast research grant. She published a scoping review highlighting the effectiveness and acceptance of these videos, which are viewed as valuable supplements to written procedures. The study results indicate that rare procedures can cause anxiety for nurses and that self-reported clinical reasoning improves with the use of videos.

Dr Yingyan Chen is a cardiac nurse, senior lecturer, and mid-career researcher, with one of her focuses on improving nurses’ competency in ECG interpretation across acute and critical care settings. Her work has identified critical knowledge and competency gaps among nursing students, clinicians, and educators, informing education, assessment, and training strategies to enhance clinical decision making and patient safety. She has published 33 peer-reviewed papers, predominantly in Q1 journals. She also leads a state-wide knowledge translation study aiming to promote same-day discharge following elective PCI across Victorian hospitals. At Monash University, Yingyan has two leadership roles, including Cardiac Stream Lead for the Master of Advanced Clinical Nursing and Course Director for the Bachelor of Nursing (Honours).

Margaret works full time as a cardiac Nurse Practitioner at HEARTLINK. Prince of Wales Hospital Randwick. HEARTLINK services have 3 components: care home visit, phone follow-up, and clinic; integrated to this service is remote patient monitoring.

Sam Turnbull is a Senior Cardiac Physiologist at Westmead Hospital, Honorary Clinical Lecturer with Sydney Medical School, and PhD candidate with the Complex Arrhythmia Program, Westmead Applied Research Centre, The University of Sydney. He is an allied health Certified Cardiac Device Special and Certified Cardiac Electrophysiology Specialist by the International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiner. His research work focuses in improving mechanisms for arrhythmia diagnoses, substrate identification and treatment management options.

Ellen is a Cardiac Sonographer and currently works as a Professional Teaching Fellow at the University of Auckland. She has been involved in the development and delivery of the PGDipHSc (Cardiac Ultrasound), which is NZ’s first cardiac sonography training course.

Dr Derek Tran is a Heart Foundation Fellow at the Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, with joint academic-clinical appointments as the Principal Exercise Physiologist at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Adult Congenital Heart Disease Service and as a Senior Exercise Physiology Fellow at the Heart Research Institute. His research focuses on cardiopulmonary exercise testing and exercise physiology in people living with complex cardiopulmonary conditions. He developed the national recommendations for exercise in congenital heart disease and leads an Academic Cardiopulmonary Exercise and Lifestyle (CEL) Clinic.