Professor Greg Scalia is a Gold Medal graduate of the University of Queensland, 1987. He was the first dedicated echocardiologist to join Advara HeartCare, having completed a two year cardiac imaging fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic, USA in 1996. Professor Scalia is a nationally respected expert in echocardiography, undertaking a busy schedule of lecturing and teaching in Australia, the United States and South East Asia. He has been co-director of the Echo Australia program since its inception in 2002. Professor Scalia has been awarded fellowships in the American College of Cardiology and the American Society of Echocardiography. He was awarded a Master of Medical Science by the University of Queensland in 1999 for original research into cardiac diastolic function. He has been Associate Professor of Medicine at his alumni, the University of Queensland since 2004 and became a Professor in 2018. Professor Scalia is the Director of Echocardiography at The Prince Charles Hospital. Professor Scalia has published over three hundred papers, abstracts and book chapters in peer-reviewed major journals.

Darryl J Burstow MBBS, FRACP, FCSANZ, FASE is Eminent Cardiologist, The Prince Charles Hospital, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Queensland and Adjunct Professor, School of Clinical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology. After completing advanced training in cardiology at The Prince Charles Hospital, his serious echo education began at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester where he completed an Echo fellowship in the late 1980’s. Following his return to Brisbane, he initially worked in private practice at Wesley Hospital before taking up the position of Director of Echocardiography at TPCH from 1991 until 2016. His clinical and research interests include the Echo assessment of diastolic function and prosthetic valves, Intraoperative echocardiography and Echocardiography education. He was co-Director of the Echo Australia educational meeting from its inception until 2022.