Dr Harriette Van Spall is an Associate Professor of Medicine and cardiologist and serves as Director of E-Health at McMaster University, Canada. She completed her medical and postgraduate clinical training at the University of Toronto and earned a Master of Public Health degree at Harvard University, US. Dr Van Spall is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research-funded clinical trialist and researcher with a focus on heart failure, health services, and health disparities.

She has garnered more than $4 million in research funding, has won several research awards, and has published her work in high-impact medical journals. She is an invited speaker, media correspondent, and editorial board member active in peer review at several high-impact medications journals and grant funding agencies, including Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.

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Dr James L Januzzi,  is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has an in-depht experience as a teacher and leads a research programme with specific focus on cardiac biomarker testing.

Dr Januzzi was the top-ranked graduate in his class at New York Medical College. He completed an internship and residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital prior to performing a clinical and research fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he also completed a fellowship in cardiac ultrasound. 

He speaks widely on the topic of biomarker testing in heart disease and treatment of heart failure.  He has served as the Cardiology Consultant to the Boston Red Sox since 2005.