ESC Immediate Past-President (2018 – 2020), Jeroen Bax is Director of non-invasive imaging and Director of the echo-lab at the Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands. His main interests include clinical cardiology, heart valve disease, heart failure, cardiac resynchronization therapy and the application of all different imaging modalities to these clinical fields. Professor Bax has authored numerous papers and holds several positions in national and international scientific organizations, as well as serving on the editorial boards of many different journals.

Bonita Anderson DMU (Cardiac), M App Sc (Med Ultrasound), ACS, AMS, FASE

Bonita has more than 35 years’ clinical experience in echocardiography and a 15-year tenure as an academic at the Queensland University of Technology where she coordinated the Graduate Diploma in Cardiac Ultrasound. She is currently a Clinical Fellow at the School of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and an Advanced Cardiac Scientist at The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.

She is also the author of two Echocardiography textbooks which are used in teaching programs within Australia, the USA and Europe. She has edited and contributed to several other echocardiography textbooks and is a frequent speaker at national and international echocardiographic conferences.

Bonita has held numerous committee positions including the International Representative to the Board of Directors for the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), Chair of the ASE Membership Committee, Council of the Australasian Sonographers Accreditation Registry (ASAR), Cardiac Sonographers Working Group for the Australasian Sonographers Association (ASA), Board of Examiners for the Diploma in Medical Ultrasound (ASUM) and the Imaging Council for the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ).

Kylie Baker MBBS, FACEM, CCPU, @kyliebaker888 is an Emergency Physician at Ipswich General Hospital, who has learnt, researched and taught bedside ultrasound since 2001, with the close support and mentorship of the Ipswich General Hospital sonography department. She was trained at the Australian Institute of Ultrasound, has tutored at AIU and is now taking a break to study for a DDU in emergency medicine.

Her research into lung ultrasound in heart failure commenced in 2010 with a generous grant from the Emergency Medicine Foundation. This pilot study progressed to a multicentre trial, again sponsored by EMF, culminating in cost analysis with the help of the Centre for International Economics..

Her current interests lie in teaching point of care ultrasound as a decision-enhancing tool for acutely unwell patients. She is a strong believer in problem directed, whole body assessment, and is currently exploring the inclusion of bowel ultrasound and venous congestion indices into assessment with the help of the international #FOAMed community.

Jens-Uwe Voigt has been trained in Germany, UK and US and works as staff cardiologist and
appointed professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium, leading the echocardiography lab of the
cardiovascular department of the University Hospitals and an imaging research group with several
international fellows and PhD students. His field of interest is myocardial function imaging to which
he contributed significantly in the past years. The current focus of his work is on clinical applications
of high frame rate imaging, ventricular dyssynchrony and technical aspects of applied
echocardiographic deformation imaging. JUV has published over 200 papers in pear reviewed
international journals and is author and co-author of several echocardiographic text books and
international recommendation papers. H-Index 49, 15000 citations. (see publication list at
https://lirias.kuleuven.be/cv?u=u0052068). He received several national and European grants and is
PI, co-author and core lab leader in H2020, FP7 and other European Multicenter Trials. JUV is in the
Editorial Board of several international Journals such as Circulation, European Heart Journal and
others. He has been actively involved in the Board of the European Association of Non-invasive
Imaging as chair and committee member and is active in the ASE-EACVI-Task Force for
Standardization of Strain Imaging. He organizes or is involved in the organization of several national
and international annual meetings in the field of echocardiography in Belgium and Germany . JUV is
Fellow of the ESC, Member and/or Nucleus Member of the EACVI, ASE and the national Belgian and
German imaging and cardiology societies and Honorary Member of the British Society of
Echocardiography.

MD, DSc(Med)(Hon), DSc(Hon), FACC, FAHA, FASE, FISCU(D)

• Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, USA
• President, International Society of Cardiovascular Ultrasound (ISCU)
• Considered “Father of Echocardiography/Modern Echocardiography”  by many prestigious organizations (Discovered  pulmonary valve by echo, first to diagnose dextro-transposition of great vessels in new borns, first to perform color Doppler in the fetus, introduced color Doppler in USA,  developed  techniques for semi-quantitation of valvular regurgitation, invented treadmill exercise echo, first to develop  clinical technique of real time three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography, pioneer work in echo in cardiac pacing, etc.)
• Medical institutes and Echo Laboratories in India have been named in his honor
• Awarded USA’s  Ellis Island Medal of Honor (Highest civilian honor for immigrants)
• Life Time Achievement Award by the American Society of Echocardiography (2018)
• International Award by the American College of Cardiology for “enhancing cardiovascular care throughout the world” and being a “role model for others to follow in his footsteps”
• Honored by Govt. of India Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan as “Icon of the Century in Cardiology and Echocardiography in the World”. Only outside physician to be so honored.

Director ICU and echo lab at Nepean Hospital, Sydney. Trained in UK initially (at Oxford & Guy’s/Thommy’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.  Particularly interested in RV failure and FOAMed in critical care echo.

M.B.B.S. (Hons), M.Med.Sc., F.R.A.C.P., F.A.C.C., F.C.S.A.N.Z., F.A.S.E., J.P.

Cardiologist

• Professor of Medicine, University of Queensland.
• Director of Echocardiography
• The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
• with principle involvement in the Structural Heart Program
• Senior consultant cardiologist at GenesisCare,
• Wesley Hospital Brisbane.
• President, Structural Heart Disease Australia.
• Chairman, Medical Advisory Board,
• The Wesley Hospital, Brisbane 2014-2017.
• Principle, Echo Australia Program 2002-2022.
• Editor: Journal American Society of Echocardiography CASE Journal 2016-
• Editor: Echocardiography Journal 2020-
• Advanced Imaging Fellowship at The Cleveland Clinic, Ohio 1995-1996.

BMedSci (1st hons) MBBS FRACP FCSANZ

Dr David Russell is a cardiologist specialising in multi-modality cardiac imaging. He completed his medical degree at the University of Tasmania, and his specialist training at the Royal Hobart Hospital and the Austin Hospital (Melbourne). Further to his training, he has undertaken a cardiac MRI fellowship at St Bartholomew’s Hospital (London), and an advanced echocardiology fellowship at St Vincent’s Hospital (Melbourne).

Dr David Russell has held a staff specialist cardiology appointment at the Royal Hobart Hospital since June 2018 where he has an active role in teaching cardiac sonographers and cardiology registrars. He is the local principal investigator for international cardiac amyloid trials

Dr David Russell has expertise in all aspects of adult cardiology, including: the diagnosis and management valvular disease, ischaemic heart disease, and heart failure. His special interests include 3D echocardiography, aortic and mitral valve disorders, and infiltrative cardiomyopathies.