André completed a PhD at St Vincent’s / University of Melbourne and 4 years of post-doctoral research at the University Hospital of Leuven, Belgium. His research and clinical work focus on the effect of exercise on the human heart. He studies the range of health from severe heart and lung disease to elite athletic performance. André heads the National Centre for Sports Cardiology that comprises a young team of multi-disciplinary researchers based at the HEART Lab, supported by St Vincent’s Institute and the Victor Chang Cardiovascular Research Institute. He has pioneered novel imaging techniques including exercise cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and contrast echocardiography. He has more than 300 peer-review publications and text-book chapters, serves on multiple international guideline statements and is regularly invited to present at all major international cardiology conferences.

Dr Philipp Nikolai is a senior cardiologist at Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart, where he has led interventional AV-valve therapies since 2014 and serves as a key member of the multidisciplinary Heart team. He began his medical career at the University Hospital Mainz in 2005, completing his residency in Cardiology. He has earned consultant certifications in Internal Medicine, Aviation Medicine, and Cardiology, before moving into his senior cardiologist role in Stuttgart. With extensive clinical, interventional, and research experience, Dr Nikolai is recognised for his expertise in complex valvular therapies and imaging-guided structural heart interventions.

Aniket has been in Cardiology teaching and practice since 2003. He was an Associate Professor of Cardiology at King George’s Medical University, India, before relocating to New Zealand. He trained in India in a high-volume and highly competitive academic environment. He did Advanced Coronary Intervention fellowships at Asan Medical Centre, Korea, and Waikato Hospital, New Zealand. He was awarded the Australia New Zealand Endovascular Therapies (ANZET) Best Fellow Prize in 2008. He continues to be involved with Research, publications, and presentations, with his main area of interest being Coronary Imaging and Physiology, including work on Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissections. He also holds Fellowships from the American College of Cardiology (FACC) and the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (FSCAI).

Dr Sandeep Basavarajaiah has been working as a consultant cardiologist at Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom, since 2014. He received intervention training at world-renowned centres (Papworth Hospital, Cambridge; San Raffaele Hospital, Milan; and Imperial College, London). He also researched the athlete’s heart, focusing on differences in the cardiovascular adaptation to training in black and white athletes. He works in a busy unit that undertakes around 2000 angioplasties per year, and he performs over 250 PCI annually. Most of his cases are complex interventions, including CTO-PCI, calcified lesions, and left main cases. He leads the CTO-PCI at Heartlands Hospital and regularly organises workshops in collaboration with World experts. Sandeep also has special interests in drug-coated balloons and is considered one of the field's experts. He has presented at various international meetings. He has also been proctoring various centres in Europe and Asia on performing DCB angioplasty. He has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is also the research lead in his trust and is part of several randomised control trials and registries.

Adele is an Imaging Cardiologist working in Hawke’s Bay.