Prof Crespo-Leiro is the Head of the Heart Failure (HF) and Heart Transplantation (HT) Unit at the Hospital Universitario A Coruña, La Coruña (Spain). Professor of Medicine at the University of Coruña (UDC) in La Coruña (Spain). She obtained her MD at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Specialisation in Cardiology at Clinica Puerta de Hierro in Madrid and PhD from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Dr Ovidiu Chioncel is Professor of Cardiology and Head of ICCU at the University of Medicine Carol Davila in Bucharest, Romania. 

His clinical research interests include heart failure, cardiac imaging and emergency medicine. 

Dr Chioncel has been involved in numerous clinical trials, and is Director of the Romanian Acute Heart Failure Syndrome registry (RO-AHFS), the National Registry of Acute Aortic Dissections (RENADA) and the National Coordinator of EORP/ESC-HF Registries. 

Dr Ovdiu Chioncel is a Section Editor of Cardiac Failure Review.

Dr Alanna Morris is Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, US. Dr Morris' research interests include studying the importance of non-modifiable risk factors such as race and gender that may contribute to excess disease in high risk populations, and identifying the role of biomarkers of oxidative stress and endothelial dysfunction in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.

Dr Shelley Zieroth is Professor at the College of Medicine, Max Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, as well as Director of the Heart Failure and Heart Transplant Clinics at St Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, Canada. She is also Head of the Medical Heart Failure Program for Cardiac Sciences Manitoba.

She is involved in several heart failure clinical trials as a PI, National Lead or Executive Committee member. She is the Past President of the Canadian Heart Failure Society and Co-Chair of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Heart Failure Guidelines. She is co-chair of Canada’s largest annual heart failure meeting, HF Update, and Past President of the Federation of Medical Women of Canada.

Dr Shelley Zieroth is an Editorial Board member of Cardiac Failure Review.

Dr John R Teerlink is Director of the Heart Failure Program and of the Clinical Echocardiography Laboratory at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Francisco, California. 

Dr Teerlink graduated from Swarthmore College with Highest Honors in Comparative Religious Studies and Cellular Biology. After receiving his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, he completed an internal medicine residency at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).

Prof Gerasimos Filippatos is a Professor of Cardiology and Cardiologist at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, GR.

He studied Medicine at the University of Patras, and earned his doctorate Cum Laude from the University of Athens.

Prof Filippatos is Past President of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the European Society of Cardiology and he has published over 600 articles in peer-reviewed journals and authored more than 30 book chapters.