Assoc Prof Sandhir B Prasad | RBWH A/Prof Sandhir B Prasadis a senior staff cardiologist and clinical lead in echocardiography at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital. He is a Monash medical graduate, completed his training in cardiology at Wellington Hospital (NZ), and then completed research and clinical fellowships at Westmead Hospital (Sydney), MonashHeart (Melbourne) and Princess Alexandra Hospital (Brisbane). He has been awarded research fellowships from the National Heart Foundation (NZ), Centres of Health Research (Qld) and Metro North (Clinician Research Fellowship). He is the recipient of Awards of Excellence from ASUM (Australasian Sonologist of the Year) and Metro North Hospital and Health Service (Clinical Research Award). His PhD focussed on the pathophysiology of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction with publications in JASE, Heart and JACC: CV Imaging. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Queensland and Griffith University. He is the current president of the Queensland branch of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand.

Ms Caitlyn McKenzie | QEII Jubilee Hospital Caitlyn McKenzie is an echocardiographer at QEII Jubilee Hospital in Brisbane. She completed a Bachelor of Biomedical Science and a Graduate Diploma in Clinical Physiology at Griffith University before working as a cardiac scientist on the Gold Coast. Caitlyn later relocated to Hamilton, New Zealand, where she completed her clinical echocardiography training at Waikato Hospital while pursuing the Graduate Diploma of Cardiac Ultrasound through the Queensland University of Technology, which she finished in 2024. Her clinical experience spans adult transthoracic, stress, and contrast echocardiography as well as assistance during structural heart procedures and on-call acute echocardiography. In 2025, Caitlyn was awarded the Australasian Sonographers Association Cardiac Ultrasound Clinical Excellence Prize in recognition of her clinical skill and professionalism while studying at QUT.