Professor Andrew Coats was born in Melbourne, Australia. He studied at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, where he earned a B.A. in Physiological Sciences with First-Class Honours, and then completed his medical degree (M.B. B.Chir.) at Clare College, Cambridge. He later obtained higher doctorates (D.M. and D.Sc.) in recognition of his substantial contributions to cardiovascular medicine, and he also completed an MBA at the London Business School. Professor Coats serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Cardiac Failure Review journal.

Career Overview

Andrew Coats is an internationally renowned academic cardiologist, inventor, and university leader with a career spanning more than three decades. He is currently the Scientific Director and CEO of the Heart Research Institute in Sydney, Australia. He also serves as Dean of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Affiliate Professor at Deakin University, and Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Monash University.

Professor Richard Schilling is a Consultant Cardiologist specialising in cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmia management. He has been based at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and the Royal London Hospital since 2001, where he has played a central role in the development of one of Europe’s largest and most advanced cardiac centres. His clinical and leadership work has contributed significantly to the modern delivery of arrhythmia services within the NHS.

Academic History

Professor Schilling was appointed Chair in Cardiology and Electrophysiology in 2009. His academic work is closely integrated with his clinical practice and focuses on advancing interventional electrophysiology, device therapy and innovative strategies for the management of cardiac arrhythmias and heart failure.

Career Overview

Professor Schilling has served as a Consultant Cardiologist at St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London NHS Trust since 2001. His clinical…

Prof Cecilia Linde is a professor and consultant in cardiology at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. Her research focuses on epidemiology and devices for use in heart failure. 

Her research currently focuses devices and their implementation and epidemiology in heart failure. Cecilia Linde is Vice President of the Board member of the ESC for the period of 2018-2020 responsible for working groups, councils, women, the young and the membership committee and serves as member of the Congress Programme Committee as topic chair for arrhythmia.

Prof Linde is the author of more than 250 papers, reviews and editorials in a wide variety of fields including CRT, haemodynamic monitoring and HFpEF and she serves on the editorial board of several journals. She has been a board member of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) for which she was scientific programme Chair 2013–2015 and has served on many guidelines writing committees of EHRA and…

Martin Cowie is Professor of Cardiology at King's College London, and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK. Prof Cowie chairs the Clinical Practice Committee of the British Cardiac Society and sits on the UK Department of Health’s Primary Care and Heart Failure Implementation Board. 

Prof Cowie's research interests focus on health technology assessment and delivery of efficient and effective care for patients with heart failure, with a focus on diagnostics, drugs, and devices. He has had a longstanding interest in evaluating remote monitoring and other digital technologies in heart failure.

Prof Cowie’s studies and reviews have been published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, including The Lancet, European Heart Journal, British Medical Journal, Heart and International Journal of Cardiology. He is a member of the editorial boards of Heart, The British Journal of Diabetes and…