Dr. Victoria Delgado, is currently the head of the cardiovascular imaging department of the Heart Institute at the University Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol and scientific director of the Centre of Competitive Medicine and Bioimaging in Badalona, Spain. She graduated in medical school at the University of Barcelona (Spain), accomplished her training in Cardiology at the Hospital Clinic in Barcelona (Spain) and followed a 3-year fellowship at the Leiden University Medical Center (The Netherlands) where she was appointed as cardiologist with expertise on multimodality imaging from 2010 till 2021. She obtained her PhD degree cum laude in 2010 at the Leiden University with the thesis entitled Novel Cardiac Imaging Technologies: Implications in Clinical Decision Making. 

Her currently ongoing projects focus on multimodality imaging in valvular heart disease and heart failure. She has participated in several multicenter registries on coronary artery disease and cardiomyopathies and in randomized controlled trials such as the RHEIA study (comparing TAVI vs SAVR in women) and the TAVR-UNLOAD (TAVR in moderate aortic stenosis with heart failure). She has more than 700 per-reviewed publications, and an H-factor of 84. She has contributed to more than 200 text books, including the worldwide recognized landmark book Hurst’s The Heart, 15^th edition. She has been co-promotor of 17 PhD students and currently supervises 6 PhD fellows. She was awarded with the Outstanding Scholarship Simon Dack award of the Journal of American College of Cardiology in 2014. In addition, she has received many research grants from public institutions in Spain, the European Society of Cardiology and has contributed to raise funding from public institutions and industry for more than 1M €. She is currently president of Scientific Commission Sciences de la Vie et de la Santé – 4 (SVS-4) of the F.R.S.-FNRS (Belgium) and has formed part of several grant selection panels.

She has been serving as reviewer in many international peer-reviewed journals, forms part of the Editorial Board of Heart, European Heart Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging, Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging, JACC Cardiovascular Imaging and Canadian Journal of Cardiology. She has been  Associate Editor of the Journal of American Society of Echocardiography and she is currently Senior Editor of Circulation. She has been very much involved at the European Society of Cardiology, in several task force of guidelines, in the Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee, European Observational Registry Programme and ESC Congress programme committee. She has been councilor of the ESC Board and is currently the President-elect of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging. 

My name is Orazi Soledad, I was born on July 19, 1988 in Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. My family is composed of 3 sisters, my mother and my father. My father always worked as a gas fitter and my mother is Biochemistry, but she worked as a professor. I don´t have any medical relatives, but I always wanted to be a doctor. I lived in that small city for 26 years, when I graduated in Medicine School (Universidad Nacional del Sur), and moved to Neuquén, a place located 500 km from Bahía Blanca. After several exams, I was able to do my residency in cardiology in this place. During that time, I had the opportunity to rotate in two amazing cardiac institutions in Argentina, ICBA (Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires) and El Cruce Hospital, in 2018. 

Following the attainment of my cardiology degree, I started working at the hospital in a small town (San Martín de los Andes) with a population of around forty thousand inhabitants. Then, in 2019, I presented a pioneering proposal to the health authorities of San Martin de los Andes Hospital, looking for further training and to be able to offer Doppler Echocardiography to patients at the Hospital and its surrounding area. The proposal involved periodic training trips (every 15 days) over a year to a highly regarded healthcare center in Argentina (ICBA, Cardiovascular Institute of Buenos Aires), located in Buenos Aires, while continuing to attend the patients at the town’s hospital. I finished the fellowship in August 2020. 

Since that moment I have dedicated myself to clinical cardiology in San Martín de los Andes. Although I really enjoy my work, I think it is a good time to continue growing in my professional career, determined to discover new places and new colleagues to meet.

Professor Emer Joyce is a Consultant Cardiologist specializing in Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Cardiac Transplantation at the Mater University Hospital Dublin and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is the National Lead for Advanced Heart Failure through the National Heart Program and is the Chair of the National Amyloidosis Working Group, where she is co-lead of the newly proposed ‘Irish Expert Amyloidosis Network’. She serves on the Advanced HF Committee of the HFA-ESC, Chair of the Irish Heart Foundation HF Council, and is Assistant Secretary of the Irish Cardiac Society. She has a PhD on advanced cardiac imaging from Leiden University, Netherlands and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Cardiac Failure. She has published over 70 articles in peer-reviewed medical journals focused on heart failure, cardiomyopathies, ventricular assist devices and advanced heart disease. She is passionate about educating and serving as a mentor for a new generation of Heart Function specialists in Ireland. 

Natasha Gorrie is a PhD Candidate and Cardiologist at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, UNSW and St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney, Australia. She completed Cardiology training with a focus on advanced heart failure followed by a clinical and research fellowship in infiltrative cardiomyopathies and amyloidosis. Her PhD on cardiac amyloidosis, genetics and HFpEF is supported by a prestigious NHMRC scholarship.

Outside of these commitments she holds positions on the Australian Amyloidosis Network Research Committee, the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand Education Committee and several gender equity committees. She enjoys teaching, has a Graduate Diploma in Clinical Education and holds academic appointments at UNSW and ND.

Her most rewarding role is as a mother to her two young children and wife.

Dr. Forum Kamdar is an independent Advanced Heart Failure Physician-Scientist at the University of Minnesota. She completed her training at the University of Minnesota and the Cleveland Clinic. Her research program is focused on advancing the understanding of genetic cardiomyopathies through translational and clinical research to improve patient care. Dr. Kamdar is committed to mentoring the next generation of women cardiologists.

Marilena Giannoudi is an Academic Clinical Fellow based at Leeds University Teaching Hospitals and the University of Leeds. In addition to her medical training she has completed a Masters by Research (MRes) in Cardiovascular Health and Disease at the University of Newcastle, and a Master of Science (MSc) in Health Professionals Education at Hull York Medical School. She is a current PhD student at the University of Leeds characterising diabetic cardiomyopathy using cardiac MRI and transcriptomics. Her goal is to continue on the clinical academic path as an imaging cardiologist, with a special interest in inherited cardiac disease, cardio-oncology and medical education.