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 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.

Prof Carolyn Lam is a Senior Consultant Cardiologist and Director of Women’s Heart Health at the National Heart Centre Singapore, where she pioneered the country’s first Women’s Heart Clinic. Internationally recognised for her expertise in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), Prof Lam has played a key role in landmark clinical trials including PARAGON-HF, EMPEROR-Preserved, DELIVER and FINEARTS-HF.

Her work helped establish the first FDA-approved treatment for HFpEF and the first trial to demonstrate robust clinical benefit in this patient population. A prolific researcher, Prof Lam has authored over 700 peer-reviewed publications in top journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, JAMA, Circulation and