Since 2008 Prof. Crea is Professor of Cardiology, Director of the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Director of the Postgraduate School in Cardiology and Coordinator of the PhD program in Cellular and Molecular Cardiology at the Catholic University in Rome. Research activity has been mainly focused on the study of the multiple mechanisms of myocardial ischemia in chronic and acute coronary syndromes. Prof. Crea has been awarded numerous research awards including the Arrigo Recordati International Prize for the “Lifetime achievement in researching the pivotal role of microcirculation in systemic and organ diseases”. He has given prestigious lectureship worldwide including the 7th annual Robert L. Krakoff International Lecture in Cardiovascular Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University Medical School. Since September 2020 he is Editor-in-Chief of the European Heart Journal.

Dr Ed Nicol graduated with honours from Nottingham University Medical School in 1992. He trained in general cardiology at various specialist cardiac units in London and Oxford undertaking his doctoral research in cardiovascular CT at Royal Brompton.

He was appointed as honorary consultant cardiologist at the Trust to facilitate the expansion of cardiovascular CT – particularly in research, education and training.

He is also the clinical governance lead for the cardiovascular CT department at Royal Brompton Hospital and regularly leads clinical research projects and audits to support quality improvement in this field.

After obtaining his MD in Medicine and Surgery at the La Sapienza University of Rome with full honors in 1988, Giuseppe Rosano obtained his specialization in Cardiology in 1992, before attaining his MSc and his PhD in Medical Sciences from the Imperial College in London.

Professor Rosano’s areas of scientific interest include experimental and clinical pharmacology, heart failure, cardiac metabolism, diabetes and the cardiovascular effect of sex hormones. He has authored over 500 peer-reviewed articles, 5 books and 28 book chapters.

He is currently Consultant Cardiologist and Professor of Cardiology at the St George’s University Medical School in London he is also Professor of Pharmacology at San Raffaele University in Rome.

He has served as an expert in the area of Cardiovascular Medicine for the European Assessment Office of the Italian Drug Agency (AIFA), he has been core member of the Cardiovascular Working Party of the European Medicines Agency.

He is board member of the Heart Failure Association (HFA), Chairman of the Education committee of the HFA and President-elect of the HFA.

Internationally recognized as one of the leading experts in the field of cardiovascular ultrasound, Robert J. Siegel, MD, specializes in cardiovascular ultrasound, including transthoracic, transesophageal and intravascular methodologies. Siegel's research interests include valvular heart disease, therapeutic applications of ultrasound energy, 2D and 3D transesophageal echocardiography for the guidance and monitoring of percutaneous procedures such as mitral valve repair and aortic valve replacement, and intraoperative echocardiography. In addition, he is involved with clinical research studies related to the diagnosis, assessment and management of patients with Marfan syndrome and other aortopathies as well as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and pericardial and valvular heart disease. Siegel is on the editorial board of two cardiovascular journals. He has edited three textbooks on ultrasound-related topics, and he is a reviewer for more than a dozen cardiovascular journals. Siegel has authored over 285 peer-reviewed scientific papers related to cardiovascular medicine. He is also a contributing author to more than 20 cardiovascular textbooks. Siegel is a fellow in the American College of Cardiology, and has previously served as the president of the California Chapter. He is also a co-chair of the American College of Cardiology 2014 annual meeting, co-chair of the National Marfan Foundation 2013 annual meeting and a previous president of the Los Angeles Society of Echocardiography. He has been active in numerous cardiovascular societies, including the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology and the American Society of Echocardiography.

Nir Uriel, MD, MSc, an internationally recognized leader in heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, and heart transplantation, is the Director of Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation at NewYork-Presbyterian. Dr. Uriel oversees heart failure programs at NewYork-Presbyterian’s campuses in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, and Westchester, with a goal to increase accessibility of care for those with advanced heart failure throughout the New York area. Dr. Uriel was born and raised in Israel, where he attended medical school. After serving for four years as a physician in the Israeli Defense Forces, he then completed his cardiology residency and fellowship. In 2008, he moved to New York to pursue fellowships at NewYork- Presbyterian/Columbia in cardiology, heart failure, transplant, and mechanical circulatory support and remained there as a faculty member until 2014. He then served as the Louis Block Professor of Medicine and Director of Heart Failure, Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support at the University of Chicago Medicine, where, in 2018, he and his Chicago team made history performing two triple organ transplants within 27 hours.