Edmund Lau is a respiratory physician working at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney. He is the lead Respiratory Physician of the Pulmonary Hypertension Service at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He was previously a post-doctoral research fellow at the French National Referral Centre for Severe Pulmonary Hypertension. He is the Medical Director of the Australian and New Zealand Pulmonary Hypertension Registry. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications on the topic of pulmonary hypertension.

David Jenkins is a Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK. He graduated from medical school at the University of London in 1989, with a first class intercalated BSc in Physiology, and trained in surgery in London. Following a 2-year formal research period investigating ischaemic preconditioning and myocardial protection at the Hatter Institute at University College London, Mr Jenkins was awarded Master of Surgery from London University in 1997. He undertook his cardiothoracic surgical training in West London at Harefield, Hammersmith and St George’s hospitals, and was appointed as Consultant at Papworth Hospital in 2001. Mr Jenkins has experience in all aspects of adult cardiac surgery. Specialist experience includes surgical treatment of pulmonary hypertension, heart and lung transplantation, and mechanical circulatory support including extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). In 2004, he became director of the UK national pulmonary endarterectomy programme (PEA) for the treatment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). He is an executive board member of the International CTEPH Association. He is a member of the scientific board of the World Symposium Pulmonary Hypertension Association. He served as divisional director for surgery and transplantation at Royal Papworth hospital from 2016-2026. His research interests are related to myocardial protection, pulmonary hypertension and PEA surgery. He is a member of Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in GB&I, European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery, International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation and the American Association of Thoracic Surgery.

Dr Sonia Sawant is a Cardiology Advanced Trainee at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney and Conjoint Associate Lecturer at the University of New South Wales. She holds a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Sydney and a Master of Public Health from Imperial College London. Her research focuses on cardiovascular outcomes, public health and advanced heart failure.

Dr Emily Granger is a Cardiothoracic and Heart Lung Transplant surgeon. Her areas of interest include TAVI, ECMO, transplants and trauma surgery. Emily completed her medical degree at the University of Queensland (1997) and her surgical fellowship with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) in 2006. She is involved with the NSW Organ Tissue Donation Service and Deceased Donor Organ Procurement, and, in 2014, was involved in the world’s first successful ‘donation after circulatory death’ heart transplant. Since then, the Transplant Unit at St Vincent’s Hospital has performed over 100 DCD heart transplants. Dr Granger lectures at the Clinical Medical School at St Vincent’s Hospital and the University of Notre Dame, and is active in teaching medical students, junior doctors, and trainee surgeons. She is an EMST and CCRISP instructor with RACS. In 2017, she was appointed to the Board of Cardiothoracic Surgical Examiners. She is currently the President of the ANZ Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons.