Matthias G. Friedrich earned his MD at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen/Nuernberg,Germany and completed his training as an internist and cardiologist at the Charité University Medicine Center, Humboldt University in Berlin.

After appointments with the University of Calgary and the Université de Montréal/Montreal Heart Institute, he is Full Professor with the Departments of Medicine and Diagnostic Radiology, Chief of Cardiovascular Imaging and Scientific Director of the Courtois Cardiovascular Signature Program at the McGill University Health Centre.

He is staff cardiologist at the Royal Victoria Hospital and an active researcher with a strong interest in novel imaging techniques using cardiac MRI for visualizing myocardial disease and leads a team of more than 20 scientists.

He authored or co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, with over 17,000 citations (current h index: 58).

He was the Founding President of the…

Prof Sven Plein is a British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiovascular Imaging at the University of Leeds, UK, where he leads the Department of Biomedical Imaging Science. Together with his multidisciplinary research group, he has published over 300 original papers, position papers and review articles with a focus on CMR in ischaemic heart disease and heart failure. Prof Plein also practices as a Consultant Cardiologist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals where he leads a busy clinical CMR service.

Prof Plein has been active in the field of CMR since 1999 and has been an SCMR member for over 20 years. He was a member of the board of Trustees of the SCMR from 2010 – 2013 and programme chair of the 2011 joint SCMR/EuroCMR scientific sessions in Nice. Later he served as Chairman of the Working Group on CMR of the European Society of Cardiology and Vice-president of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging. He is Secretary/Treasurer and incoming Vice…

Dudley Pennell is Professor of Cardiology at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London.

He is also Director of the Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) Unit and Director of Non-Invasive Cardiology at Royal Brompton Hospital, London and Section Head for Genetics and Imaging at National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College.

His current research interests in CMR are measurement of myocardial iron and the assessment of chelation treatment, the assessment and differentiation of cardiomyopathies and diffusion tensor imaging of myocardial architecture

Professor Pennell has…

Dr João L. Cavalcante earned his medical degree the Universidade Federal do Ceará in Fortaleza, Brazil. He did his internal medicine residency, chief residency and cardiology fellowship training at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan with Level II training in nuclear cardiology. He completed a dedicated 2-year advanced cardiovascular imaging fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic obtaining COCATS Level III in Interventional Echo, Cardiovascular CT and Cardiac MRI.

Dr Cavalcante is the Director of Cardiac MRI and Structural CT Labs of Minneapolis Heart Institute at the Abbott Northwestern Hospital, the largest cardiology practice in the Twin Cities. He is the Scientific Director of the Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center and Core Lab. His passion and track record is in multimodality Imaging and focus on valve and structural heart disease.

He participated as a writing committee member for the…

Dr. Bucciarelli-Ducci is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Cardiology/Non-Invasive Imaging at the Bristol Heart Institute, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, and Co-Director of the Clinical Research and Imaging Centre Bristol.

She is widely recognized as a leader, a celebrated speaker, and a distinguished author in the field of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) as well as Chief Executive Officer for the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR)

She is the past European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) Vice-President and chair of the cardiac MRI section (2016-2018), within the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). She was part of the writing committee for the 2017 ESC guidelines on STEMI and the 2018 ESC/AHA/ACC…

Dr. Subha Raman is a cardiologist and physician-scientist at the Indiana University School of Medicine and IU Health, joining in 2020 as Chief of Cardiology, Director of the Cardiovascular Institute, and VP for Cardiovascular Services. Through clinical, investigative, educational and administrative efforts, she is dedicated to those we serve and those who serve in heart & vascular patient care, research, and teaching.

She specialises in internal medicine cardiology with clinical and research interests in general clinical cardiology, cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) and is affiliated with the James Cancer Hospital University Hospitals. Dr Raman was nominated North American Society for Cardiac Imaging (NASCI) Young Investigator prize in 2001 for Multislice Cardiac Computed Tomography: Identifying Mechanisms of Coronary Artery Disease.  She has worked to advance cardiovascular…

Dr Tilman Emrich is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Division of Cardiovascular Research, Medical University of South Carolina, US. Before, Tilman was working as a junior consultant specialized in cardiovascular imaging at the University Medical Center Mainz, Germany. After residency, he earned his board certification in diagnostic radiology in 2015, followed by certifications for cardiac imaging (CT and MR) in 2017.

His main scientific interests focus on multiparametric cardiac imaging in a general population and disease cohorts, and advanced post-processing of cardiac CT and MRI as well as impact of image acceleration on cardiac imaging biomarkers. He is a registered young scientist at the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) and a past member of the Young Club of the…

Dr Timothy Albert is Chief Medical and Product Officer, Circle Cardiovascular Imaging.

Dr Albert has successfully worked in senior healthcare management positions, the medical technology space, and clinical practice. Previously he served as Executive Medical Director of Huntington Hospital’s medical foundation, Huntington Health Physicians, located in Pasadena, CA. 

In addition to advisory positions in the healthcare industry Dr Albert has held positions with the American College of Cardiology’s Cardiovascular Imaging Section Leadership Council, has been an elected Trustee for the international board of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR), and a member of the board of directors of the Duke University Cardiovascular Cooperative Society. Dr Albert has been the primary author or co-author on over two dozen review articles, book chapters, and original scientific publications…

Amedeo Chiribiri is King's CoProfessor of Cardiovascular Imaging at King's College London and Director of Cardiac MRI at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. The major aim of his current research is the investigation of novel cardiac MR techniques for the non-invasive assessment of cardiac structure and function. In particular, Prof Chiribiri’s research focuses on quantification of myocardial blood flow (perfusion) and on the development of novel methods for ischaemia detection and differential diagnosis based on advanced coronary physiology modelling and machine learning, with a strong emphasis on rapid translation of new methodology into the clinic practice to evaluate benefit for the patients.

Dr Christopher Schneeweis is a founder and senior consultant at Herz-MRT Rheinland – Institute for Cardiovascular Imaging in Germany.

Christopher has almost 10 years of experience in cardiovascular imaging and held a post as senior consultant at Krankenhaus der Augustinerinnen „Severinsklösterchen“ Cologne – Clinic for internal medicine, cardiology and intensive care – fostering and optimising the use of cardiovascular imaging (CMR and CT). Christopher has also lectured in the CMR Academy in Berlin and at Charite’, Berlin.