Roadmaps Development and Implementation

Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota
Chief of Cardiology, VA Medical Center, Minneapolis

Editor in Chief
Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging

Interested in pragmatic clinical trials, national and international registries, clinical audits and quality improvement projects in cardiology in general and interventional cardiology in particular. Interested in research focusing on complex coronary procedures٫ structural interventions, MINOCA and CVD in women. Calling for gender balance in interventional cardiology programs. World Heart Federation Emerging Leader (WHF ELP)

Gemma is a Professor in Medicine at the University of Sydney and an Interventional and Imaging Cardiologist at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. Gemma is committed to improving the care for heart attack patients, unravelling key mechanisms underlying susceptibility and response to heart attack. Discoveries in her Laboratory have been published in leading journals including the Lancet, Circulation, JACC and European Heart Journal, with > 350 publications. Gemma is founder and CSO for Australian start-ups Prokardia and Kardiomics, and the not-for-profit CAD Frontiers Pty Ltd. She is a passionate advocate for cardiovascular research, working as President of the Australian Cardiovascular Alliance from 2017-23. In 2023, Gemma was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM), in the Australia Day Honours.

Fernando Lanas Zanetti, MD. FACC, FESC, FSIAC. Cardiologist. Professor of Medicine. Universidad de La Frontera, Chile. MSc Clinical Epidemiology Pennsylvania University. Ph.D. Research Methodology Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. Past President, Chilean Society of Cardiology and Chilean Society of Hypertension. Past Vice President InterAmerican Society of Cardiology. WHF Science Committee member. Chilean Academy of Medicine member.

Verónica Inés Volberg, MD, FACC, FESC, is a cardiologist and the Head of the Echocardiography Laboratory in the Division of Cardiology at the Hospital de Clínicas “José de San Martín” at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has held this position since 2019. Additionally, Dr. Volberg is an Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine at the School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, a role she has been in since 2015.

Beyond her clinical and academic responsibilities, Dr. Volberg currently serves as the Deputy Chair of International Relations for the Argentine Society of Cardiology (2025).

From 2017 to 2019, she directed the “Heart and Women” initiative within the Argentine Society of Cardiology and currently acts as an advisor for this area, with her term beginning in 2025. Furthermore, she was the Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Argentine Society of Cardiology in 2022 and the General Coordinator for the Argentine Congress of Cardiology in 2024.