Dr Nadira Hamid is a consultant cardiologist at the Minneapolis Heart Institute, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, and Director of the Echocardiography Core Laboratory at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation. A Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, she has held academic posts at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Duke-NUS Medical School, with a focus on structural heart disease and advanced echocardiography. Trained at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, she has also served in leadership roles within the Singapore Cardiac Society.

Dr Rahul  P Sharma is Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and an Interventional Cardiologist at Stanford Health Care, where he serves as Director of Structural Interventions and Associate Director of the Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory.

With over a decade of experience in complex coronary and structural heart interventions, he has combined clinical leadership with academic medicine, progressing from Cedars-Sinai to Stanford, where he has held faculty positions since 2019.

Rahul is also Co-Founder of Synchron, a pioneering neurotechnology company developing minimally invasive brain–computer interfaces that restore communication and independence for people with paralysis. His work sits at the intersection of cardiovascular innovation, translational research, and transformative medical technologies.