Prof Ralph Stewart is a Cardiologist at The Heart Group and Auckland City Hospital, and an Honorary Professor of Medicine, University of Auckland. He has interests across cardiology including coronary artery disease, risk assessment and management, heart valve disease, heart failure, and atrial fibrillation. He is a past Chairman of both the NZ Cardiac Society and the National Cardiac Clinical Network and continues to lead and contribute to national and international clinical research to improve outcomes for people with heart disease

Professor Harding is the Director of Cardiology Research, and an Interventional Cardiologist at Wellington Hospital , Wellington, New Zealand. He is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University, Wellington. Professor Harding undertook cardiology an interventional training in Wellington Hospital, the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, and at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Professor Harding has lectured on and proctored complex PCI, CTO and intravascular imaging internationally. Current research interests include, intravascular imaging, optimising PCI and platelet biology. He is an active researcher having published more than 140 papers.

Adam Nelson MBBS MBA MPH PhD is an interventional and preventative cardiologist appointed to the Royal Adelaide and Queen Elizabeth Hospitals and the University of Adelaide where he is the head of the Cardiometabolic Clinical Trial Unit. Adam is the chair of the CSANZ Prevention Council and Academic Lead of the Asia Pacific Cardiometabolic Consortium. Adam is on the national or global leadership of multiple trials evaluating emerging therapies for dyslipidaemia, obesity and diabetes. He is the recipient of >$10millon of peer-reviewed grant funding and received the Shirley Hamilton Award for the National Heart Foundation top ranked post-doctoral fellowship candidate. He has over 200 publications and book chapters but is most proud of his two boys, Archer and Max.