2024
SPEAKER Profiles
Dr Jonathan Kim
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Jonathan H. Kim, MD, MSc, FACC
Dr. Kim is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Founding Director of Sports
Cardiology in the Division of Cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine and
additionally holds an adjunct Professorship in the School of Applied Physiology at the
Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Bachelor of Science at Emory and was
a Fulbright Scholar before attending Vanderbilt Medical School. He completed his
residency in Internal Medicine & Pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital and
cardiology fellowship at Emory (chief fellow 2013-14). In addition to his clinical role,
Dr. Kim conducts NIH-funded (current R01) sports cardiology research at Emory. He is
the Team Cardiologist for the Atlanta Falcons, Braves, Hawks, and Dream, and for
Sports Medicine at Emory and Georgia Tech. Dr. Kim is a member of the NBA Cardiac
Advisory Committee and NFL Cardiovascular Task Force. He is the Co-Medical Director
for the AJC Peachtree Road Race in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Kim is the current Chair for the
American College of Cardiology’s Sports and Exercise Cardiology Council.
Dr Dermot Phelan
Atrium Health, Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute, Charlotte, USA
Dermot Phelan MD PhD is the Gragg Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine, Medical Director of Cardiovascular Imaging, Director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center, and Director of the Gragg Center for Cardiovascular Performance, at Atrium Health, Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute, Charlotte, North Carolina. He established and ran the Sports Cardiology Center at Cleveland Clinic in 2013 before moving the SHVI in 2020. Dr Phelan is the team cardiologist for the Carolina Panthers and Charlotte Football Club and serves as the Cardiology Consultant to the National Football League (NFL) Scouting Combine and the Major League Baseball Scouting Combine. He is Chairman of the NFL Cardiovascular Task Force and serves on the Cardiac Advisory Committees for the National Basketball Association (NBA). He and his team at SHVI have partnered with the NBA to perform quality assurance on all echocardiograms performed throughout the NBA. As a member of the American Society of Echocardiography Competitive Athlete Writing Group, he has helped write the recommendations for how to best evaluate the heart of the athlete and is the editor of a new book on Sports Cardiology entitled “Care of the Athletic Heart; From the Clinic to the Sidelines”. He serves as a member of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Sports and Exercise Cardiology Leadership Council and served as Chair of the ACC national Sports Cardiology Conference, “The Care of the Athletic Heart”, in 2022 and 2023 having served as Co-Chair in 2000 and 2001. He Has also Co-Chaired the Multimodality Imaging Guidelines for the Assessment of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. He has held multiple leadership positions the American Society of Echocardiography where he is currently the Chair of the Advocacy Committee and in-coming Co-Chair of the 2025 ASE Scientific Sessions.
Dr Eugene Chung
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Dr. Chung earned his AB at Harvard College, MSc at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland), and MD at Jefferson Medical College (Philadelphia, PA). He then completed his residency in Internal Medicine, fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine, and fellowship in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology (EP) all at the Lahey Clinic (Burlington, MA). In 2008, he joined the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) where he performed the wide range of EP procedures and served as UNC’s team cardiologist. In 2017, he joined the University of Michigan (UM) to direct expansion of EP services and serve as Director of the Sports Cardiology Clinic and Team Cardiologist for Michigan Athletics. While at UM he completed a Master in Public Health (MPH) in Population Health Science and a Certificate in Health Care Finance.
In addition to his clinical work in electrophysiology and sports cardiology, Dr Chung has maintained research interests in ECG screening and arrhythmias in athletes. He has been active in the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) and American College of Cardiology (ACC), serving as Vice-Chair of the 2024 HRS consensus statement on arrhythmias in athletes and 2020-23 Chair of the ACC Sports and Exercise Cardiology Leadership Council. He is also on the Sports Science and Safety Committee for USA Lacrosse.
Since joining Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in November 2023, Dr Chung continues to practice both clinical EP and sports cardiology. He is the inaugural Director of the Sports Electrophysiology Clinic in the Cardiovascular Performance Program (CPP), which provides comprehensive cardiovascular care for athletes and high active individuals of all levels.
Dr Jessica Orchard
The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Jessica is a Senior Research Fellow and NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow at the School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine & Health, the University of Sydney. Jessica has a PhD in cardiac screening, a Master of Public Health, and Bachelor of Economics / Bachelor of Laws (Hons I) all from the University of Sydney. Jessica is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport Plus and an Associate Editor at the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Jessica is a Cardiac Research Fellow at Cricket Australia and selected for the World Heart Federation Emerging Leaders Program 2023. She is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and a Fellow of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand.
Jessica’s research aims to improve the quality of screening programs to prevent sudden cardiac death and catastrophic disability from stroke. Jessica is Director and Principal Investigator of the Australasian Registry of ECGs of National Athletes (the ARENA Project), which aims to provide a long-term international data repository to improve our understanding of ECG interpretation cardiac diagnoses, and the rates of major cardiovascular outcomes in screened athletes. She is also interested in digital health, implementation of novel eHealth tools, and legal and ethical issues in cardiac screening.
Dr Meagan Wasfy
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
Dr. Meagan Wasfy is a sports cardiologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Her undergraduate degree is from Harvard College, her medical degree from Harvard Medical
School, and her masters in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health. She is the
cardiologist for Harvard Athletics and US Rowing and co-medical director for the Boston
Athletic Association. Dr. Wasfy is chair of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Care of
Athletic Heart Conference and a member of the ACC Sports and Exercise Cardiology Leadership Council. Dr. Wasfy’s research focus is on optimizing the clinical utilization of cardiac imaging and exercise testing in the care of athlete patients. Past and current funding sources include the National Institutes of Health, the ACC, and the National Football League Players Association.
Dr Louise Naylor
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Bio coming soon...
Angela Farley
University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Angela has worked within the medical imaging industry for over 20 years, both as a Radiographer and a Sonographer. Angela works both clinically as a Tutor Sonographer, and also as an academic at the University of South Australia where she is a course coordinator for the Medical Sonography Program. Both roles allow her the opportunity to educate and develop many sonography trainees throughout Australia, something that she is particularly passionate about. Angela has presented at numerous ASA conferences and was part of the organising committee for the 2022 Melbourne ASA conference. She won the ASA South Australia Sonographer of the year in 2022 and won the Best Overall Presentation at the ASA conference in 2024. Angela is currently completing a Masters by Research with the University of South Australia. The project focuses on the structure and function of Australian jockey hearts using echocardiography and is the first of its kind in the world. She is also a member elected board member of the Australian Sonography Accreditation Registry and is the Chair of Registry's Continuing Professional Development Sub-committee. She is also a current member of the Clinical Supervisors Special Interest Group Committee for the ASA.
Dr Silvia Castelletti
Italian Auxological Institute San Luca Hospital, Milan, Italy
Dr. Castelletti graduated in Medicine with honors from the University of Pavia, where she also passed the board examination with honors and became a Specialist in Cardiology in 2014. Between 2012 and 2015, she moved to London for a fellowship in cardiomyopathies and cardiac MRI imaging at the former The Heart Hospital of the University College of London. She then completed her MSc in Sports Cardiology at St. George's University of London, where she was appointed Honorary Senior Lecturer. Her interests include sports cardiology, inherited cardiac diseases, cardiac magnetic resonance, and prevention of sudden cardiac death in the young.
She is an ESC Fellow and a Silver Member of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC), of which Sports Cardiology and Exercise section she is also the chair. She is also an ESC Fellowship Task Force member, Executive Editor of the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, Associate Editor of the EHJ-Case Reports and of OpenHeart.
At a National Level, she is a nucleus member of the Italian Society of Sports Cardiology and a nucleus member of the working group of Inherited Cardiac Disorders. She has chaired both the European and the Italian first consensus documents on the indication of genetic testing in athletes, published in 2022. In her free time, she enjoys trekking and playing the piano, as well as visiting exhibitions and going to the theatre.
Dr Matthew Martinez
Morristown Medical Center/ Atlantic Health System, New Jersey, USA
Dr. Matthew Martinez is director of Sports Cardiology and Director of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy program at Morristown Medical Center, Atlantic Health System in New Jersey. Dr. Martinez serves as a cardiology consultant for Major League Soccer, NBA player association, NHL combine and is the team cardiologist for the New York Jets. He regularly presents on Sports Cardiology and Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at national and international meetings and served as the American College of Cardiology's Chair of Sports and Exercise section.
Julie Collis
The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Julie Collis is an echocardiographer with over 20 years of diverse experience spanning clinical practice, research, and industry. Her clinical roles have included positions in leading Australian teaching hospitals, private practice, and industry where she worked as a cardiac clinical applications specialist across the Asia-Pacific region. She holds a Master of Science from the University of Western Australia and a Diploma of Medical Ultrasound (DMU Cardiac, MSc UWA).
She is the senior researcher in echocardiography at the Cardiovascular Research group within the University of Western Australia’s School of Human Sciences (Sport and Exercise Science), where she focuses on cardiac adaptations to exercise, across a diverse cohort, including heart failure and elite athletes. In addition to this, Julie is a now a PhD candidate, investigating swimming-induced pulmonary edema (SIPE) and the cardiac factors that contribute to this condition.
Alicia Armour
Duke Triangle Heart Associates, North Carolina, USA
Alicia Armour, MA, ACS, RDCS, FASE is a Health Center Administrator for Duke Health in Durham, NC. She is also an Advanced Cardiac Sonographer and is an active volunteer with the American Society of Echocardiography
Dr Leah Wright
Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Dr Leah Wright (BAppSc, DMU Cardiac, PhD) is a Senior Echocardiographer and Post-Doctoral Fellow at Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute. Her PhD from the University of Tasmania focused on using echocardiography in the clinical follow-up of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Dr Wright has conducted clinical trials across Australia, incorporating advanced echocardiography into large community-based cohorts. She is affiliated with the Cardiometabolic Health and Exercise Physiology laboratory and the Imaging Research laboratory at Baker Institute. Dr Wright's research contributions include work on strain surveillance during chemotherapy to improve cardiovascular outcomes, use of cardiac imaging during exercise intervention trials and advanced imaging to detect subclinical cardiac disease.
Dr Kevin Harris
Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, Minneapolis, USA
Kevin M. Harris, MD, FACC FASE
Dr Harris is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical school, trained at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical center and was previously Assistant Professor at Washington University School of Medicine. He is a clinical cardiologist and echocardiographer at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation with clinical and research interests including aortic disease, valvular heart disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and heart disease in athletes. Dr Harris is the Associate Program Director of the HCMC/MHI Cardiology fellowship program he helped create in 2011. His prior sports cardiology research contributions have included profiling Deaths in United States Triathlons, as well as analyzing screening practices in the North American Professional Sports Teams. He was a member of the writing committee for the 2015 AHA Eligibility and Disqualification Recommendations for Competitive Athletes with Cardiovascular abnormalities (Aortic diseases). Most of all he enjoys the complete spectrum of cardiovascular care from prevention of disease to acute illness. He values the privilege to build relationships with patients and families on a continuing basis
Dr Andre La Gerche
St Vincent’s Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Prof André La Gerche MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FCSANZ, FESC
- Head of the Heart, Exercise and Research Trials (HEART) Lab, St Vincent’s Institute and Victor Chang
Cardiovascular Research Institute
- Cardiologist and Head of Cardiovascular Research, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
André completed a PhD at St Vincent’s / University of Melbourne and 4 years of post-doctoral research at the
University Hospital of Leuven, Belgium. His research and clinical work focuses on the effect of exercise on the
human heart. He studies the range of health from severe heart and lung disease to elite athletic performance.
André heads the National Centre for Sports Cardiology that comprises a young team of multi-disciplinary
researchers based at the HEART Lab, supported by St Vincent’s Institute and the Victor Chang Cardiovascular
Research Institute. He has pioneered novel imaging techniques including exercise cardiac magnetic resonance
imaging and contrast echocardiography. He has more than 300 peer-review publications and text-book chapters,
serves on multiple international guideline statements and is regularly invited to present at all major international
cardiology conferences.
Prof Michael Papadakis
City St George’s, University of London, London, UK
Prof Papadakis is a Professor in Cardiology at City St George’s, University of London, an Honorary Consultant Cardiology at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and a consultant cardiologist at Cleveland Clinic London. He is the past president for the European Association of Preventive Cardiology and served as a chair of the European section of Sports Cardiology and Exercise. He is consultant to the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young who screens more than 35,000 young individuals per year for heart disease and a consultant cardiologist to the English Institute of Sport, English and Wales Cricket Board and Rugby Football Union. His interests include preventive cardiology, sports cardiology, inherited heart conditions and cardiovascular imaging. Prof Papadakis is currently credited with more than 200 publications in peer reviewed medical journals and numerous presentations in national and international conferences. He has contributed to international projects that have shaped education and clinical practice in preventive cardiology and sports cardiology. In 2016 he launched a novel MSc degree in Sports Cardiology.
