Professor Jonathan Chan graduated from University of Queensland in 1998 with 1st Class Honours and was recipient of the AMA memorial prize. He completed his cardiac imaging fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, Harvard Medical School. He is currently Professor of Cardiology at Griffith University and Eminent Consultant Staff Specialist at Prince Charles Hospital. He is also Director of Echocardiography at Gold Coast Heart Centre. He has special interest and PhD in Strain imaging and co-authored many publications with the latest textbook chapter on “Strain and Myocardial Work” in the American Society of Echo ASE Textbook of Echocardiography. Professor Chan is delighted to be involved with echo education for more than 15 years having successfully mentored 12 postgraduate research students and teach as Faculty for Echo Australia, Echo Port Douglas, World Congress of Echo, Cardiac Imaging Australasia, Asian Society of Cardiac Imaging (ASCI), Asia Pacific Society of Cardiology (APSC), CSANZ, and Echo Hong Kong scientific meetings. Currently, he has the honour to serve on the Editorial board for the Journal of the American Society of Echo (JASE) and European Heart Journal- Cardiovascular imaging (EHJ-CVI).

Dr. Lindner is currently the Frances Myers Ball Endowed Professor of Medicine and serves as the Vice-chief for Research for the Cardiovascular Division at the University of Virginia. Dr. Lindner is a physician-scientist with expertise in advanced cardiovascular imaging, vascular biology, and microvascular physiology. He is currently the principal investigator on multiple R01 grants from the National Institutes of Health, and grants from NASA. His research laboratory has pioneered the use of advanced ultrasound methods for microvascular functional assessment, non-invasive molecular imaging, and for site-directed therapy. Dr. Lindner is a Past President for the American Society of Echocardiography. He is the Chair for the Exam Writing Committee and on the Board of Directors for the National Board of Echocardiography. He has served as the chair for NIH study sections and is currently the Co-chair of the NHLBI DSMB for Gene and Cell Therapy Trials. He has received numerous research and mentoring honors locally and from the American Society of Echocardiography.

Christian Hamilton-Craig is a multi-modality imaging cardiologist, trained in Australia, USA and Europe. He is a Level 3 expert in Echocardiography, Cardiac CT and Cardiac MRI, and practices from Noosa, Sunshine coast QLD

Intensive Care specialist & Director of ICU Nepean Hospital, Sydney. Co-Director of Nepean echo lab. Trained in UK (at Oxford + Guy's&Tommy's, London). ICU training in Australia. Completed 2 echo fellowships (incl. Mayo clinic, USA). PhD done assessing use of advanced echo techniques in the critically ill. Runs echo education site on YouTube = "Echo at Nepean" (>12.5K followers).