Mr Tony Forshaw AFASA | EchoGuru Tony Forshaw is an echo educator and clinical cardiac sonographer. He has a masters degree in Cardiac Ultrasound and continues to have a strong ongoing interest in research. Tony passionately enjoys the art of performing echocardiography and is obsessed with improving quality. He has been a sonographer for over 20 years, an educator at QUT, a vocal campaigner for improving standards of sonographer training and an enthusiastic speaker at conferences on a variety of echo topics. Tony is the director of Echo Guru, providing online echo education to a global audience.

Mr Mitchell Hubble | Advara Heartcare Mitchell Hubble is a Senior Cardiac Sonographer at Advara Heartcare and Melbourne Heartcare. Mitchell graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma from the Queensland University of Technology in 2020 and, since then, has gone on to complete a Master’s in Cardiac Sonography at Western Sydney University and is a current MBA candidate at Melbourne Business School. With an underlying passion for his field and career, Mitchell understands the need to give back to the sonography community by promoting education and teaching, reviewing articles and publishing, speaking engagements and quality leadership and management in echo Lab. He is a proud member of multiple professional bodies: he continually strives to advance cardiovascular health and improve patient outcomes.

Assoc Prof. Stuart Moir | Melbourne Heart Care Assoc Prof Stuart Moir is a clinical cardiologist and non invasive imaging specialist, with expertise in all forms of echocardiography (TTE, stress, TOE, contrast echocardiography) as well as cardiac CT and cardiac MRI. He completed his clinical cardiology training and an 18 month fellowship in echocardiography at MonashHeart in 2002. Stuart then undertook a PhD with the Cardiac Imaging Research Group, University of Queensland, Department of Medicine, examining the application of contrast echocardiography for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac disease. This led to several publications in leading international journals, and as a research fellow he was awarded the prestigious combined National Heart Foundation and National Health and Medical Research Council Scholarship, presented many papers at national and international conferences and was a finalist for the Ralph Reader Prize at the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Stuart then acted as the contrast echocardiography fellow at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Mn USA, before returning to Australia to divide his time between private practice and a staff specialist position at MonashHEART. He trained in cardiac CT in San Francisco in 2008 and completed a cardiac MRI fellowship at The Heart Hospital in London in 2013. He is currently the Lead Cardiologist for the cardiac MRI service at MonashHEART. He is a married father of three young children and is a long suffering Richmond supporter.

Mr Mitchell Hubble | Advara Heartcare Mitchell Hubble is a Senior Cardiac Sonographer at Advara Heartcare and Melbourne Heartcare. Mitchell graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma from the Queensland University of Technology in 2020 and, since then, has gone on to complete a Master’s in Cardiac Sonography at Western Sydney University and is a current MBA candidate at Melbourne Business School. With an underlying passion for his field and career, Mitchell understands the need to give back to the sonography community by promoting education and teaching, reviewing articles and publishing, speaking engagements and quality leadership and management in echo Lab. He is a proud member of multiple professional bodies: he continually strives to advance cardiovascular health and improve patient outcomes.