Dr Scott Isaacs is an Endocrinologist at Atlanta Endocrine Associates, Georgia, US.

His interests are in obesity medicine, fatty liver disease, thyroid disorders, cardiometabolic disease, dyslipidemia, diabetes and general endocrinology.

Prof Peter Rossing is a Clinical Professor at University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK.

His interests include complications in diabetes with focus on renal and cardiovascular complications.

He has been involved in several intervention studies in patients with overt diabetic nephropathy aiming at improving the prognosis.

Prof Rossing is past president of the Danish Endocrine Society, and of the European Diabetic Nephropathy Study group and chairman of the Danish National Diabetes Registry.

Dr Muthiah Vaduganathan is a Cardiologist and Clinical Trialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, US. He is co-director of the Center for Cardiometabolic Implementation Science at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He serves as an Associate Editor of JACC and as US national ambassador to the ESC Heart Failure Association. His research focuses on drug development, clinical trials, and implementation of cardio-kidney-metabolic therapies, and he has authored or co-authored more than 700 peer-reviewed publications. He participates on study leadership of ongoing advanced-phase trials in cardio-kidney-metabolism and heart failure.

Prof Stefan D Anker is a German cardiologist born in Berlin, Germany. He studied medicine at Charité Medical School of Humboldt University Berlin, where he completed his medical degree in 1993. He later pursued research training at the National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, completing his PhD in 1998. Following his return to Germany, Prof Anker held academic and research positions at Charité Berlin and later at University Medical Center Göttingen before returning to Charité in 2017 to serve as Professor of (Tissue) Homeostasis in Cardiology & Metabolism. His work has taken him across multiple institutions and countries through long-standing international collaborations.

Academic History

Prof Anker began his medical education at Charité Medical School, graduating in 1993. He then continued postgraduate academic training in both Germany and the United Kingdom, completing his PhD at the National Heart & Lung Institute in London…

Dr Javed Butler is President, Baylor Scott and White Research Institute, Senior Vice President for the Baylor Scott and White Health and Professor of Medicine at the University of Mississippi, US. He is board certified in cardiovascular medicine and advanced heart failure and transplant medicine. His research interests focus on clinical trials in patients with heart failure.

He serves on several national committees for the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, National Institutes of Health, and the Heart Failure Society of America. He is the recipient of the Simon Dack Award by the American College of Cardiology as well as the Time, Feeling, and Focus Award by the American Heart Association.

Prof Butler has authored more than 900 peer-reviewed publications. He serves on the editorial board of several peer reviewed cardiovascular journals and has been cited numerous times in America’s Best Doctors list.