Arthur Coverdale trained at Green Lane Hospital and the Regional Cardiac Centre, Liverpool, UK. He is a consultant cardiologist at Auckland City Hospital with special interests in general cardiology, catheterisation, balloon valvuloplasty and heart transplantation, and works part-time at the Auckland Heart Group.

Cara Wasywich trained as a cardiologist at Green Lane Hospital. She worked subsequently as a research fellow (focusing on the management of heart failure) and a cardiac transplant fellow in Auckland before spending time in Vancouver, Canada in 2005 undertaking further specialist training.

She currently practises as a cardiologist at Auckland City Hospital and at Auckland Heart Group.

Chris Ellis is a consultant cardiologist at Auckland City Hospital and at the Auckland Heart Group and Mercy Hospital. He trained at both the Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre in Southampton, England and at Green Lane Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.

He is an investigational cardiologist performing coronary angiography, CT cardiac angiography and echocardiography and has a subspecialist interest in the acute coronary syndromes and in the prevention of ischaemic heart disease: the management of lipids, cardiovascular risk and hypertension.

Colin Edwards is a consultant cardiologist at North Shore Hospital. Colin's practice involves general cardiology with an interest in acute coronary syndromes and he performs diagnostic coronary angiography.

He specialised in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and did his training at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London.

David Heaven trained in Cardiology at Waikato and Green Lane Hospitals. Subsequently he worked as Clinical Research Fellow in Cardiology (Pacing and Electrophysiology) at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London, and then completed a Fellowship in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology at Rush-Presbyterian-St Luke's Medical Center, Chicago.

Dr Heaven is a Consultant Cardiologist at Middlemore Hospital, Visiting Cardiac Electrophysiologist (heart rhythm specialist) at Auckland City Hospital, and consults part time at the Auckland Heart Group.

Fiona Stewart trained in cardiology at Green Lane Hospital and in Obstetric Medicine at National Women's Hospital. Fiona is a general cardiologist with particular interests in maternal heart disease in pregnancy, heart disease in women, preoperative risk assessment for non-cardiac surgery, atrial fibrillation, heart failure and hypertension. She is a co-author of the NZ Guideline on The Appropriate Prescribing of Hormone Replacement Therapy.

Dr Ivor Gerber graduated MBChB from the University of Cape Town in 1992 before relocating to New Zealand . He completed his training in Cardiology at Green Lane Hospital in 2000 and holds Fellowships of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) and of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (FCSANZ).

He obtained a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree for his thesis on neurohormones and inflammatory markers in valvular heart disease which was completed during a Cardiovascular Research Fellowship at Green Lane Hospital.

Main areas of interest: Interventional cardiology (including coronary, renal and carotid stenting), acute coronary syndromes, cardiac pacing. Dr Stewart did his undergraduate training in New Zealand (Otago University), and his postgraduate specialist training, including a doctoral thesis, in the United Kingdom. He worked successively at St George's Hospital, Royal Brompton Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital, all in London, as a cardiology trainee from 1986 to 1993. He spent one year (1994) at the Montreal Heart Institute, before returning to New Zealand to a consultant post in interventional cardiology at Green Lane Hospital, Auckland in 1995.

John Ormiston trained in cardiology at Green Lane Hospital and at a UCLA Hospital in Los Angeles. He is New Zealand's most experienced interventional cardiologist. Besides working at Mercy Angiography, where he is the medical director, he also works at Auckland City Hospital. He is the immediate past president of the Asia-Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology. He has an international reputation, has extensive experience with clinical trials and has a particular interest in and experience with drug-eluting stents.

Malcolm Legget trained in cardiology at Green Lane Hospital and at the University of Washington, Seattle. From 1995-2000 he was Director of Echocardiography at Green Lane Hospital, and is now a consultant cardiologist at the Auckland Heart Group and Auckland City Hospital

Malcolm has co-authored a best selling textbook on transoesophageal echocardiography and has published widely on echocardiography and valvular heart disease. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 2008.

Niels van Pelt is a consultant cardiologist at Middlemore Hospital, Auckland. After completing cardiology training in Auckland, he worked as a clinical fellow at Middlemore Hospital before taking up a fellowship in non-invasive cardiac imaging at the Thorax Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Areas of clinical interest and expertise include the modification of cardiac risk factors, the management of ischaemic heart disease and cardiac imaging, including echocardiography, cardiac CT and diagnostic coronary angiography.

Nezar Amir trained in general medicine and cardiology in Baghdad, Iraq and Auckland, New Zealand and then completed an echocardiography training fellowship at the University of California San Francisco Medical Centre. Nezar is a consultant cardiologist for the Waitemata District Health Board working at both the North Shore and Waitakere Hospitals. He is a general cardiologist who works in the coronary care unit, the cardiology clinic and the general wards. He has a particular expertise and interest in all areas of echocardiography.

Peter Ruygrok trained in cardiology at Green Lane Hospital and then completed an interventional cardiology fellowship at the Thoraxcenter in Rotterdam. He is the Clinical Director of the Green Lane Cardiovascular Service at Auckland City Hospital. His special clinical interests are interventional cardiology and cardiac transplantation . He works part-time at the Auckland Heart Group.

Ralph Stewart trained in cardiology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London, UK . He worked as a Cardiologist in Dunedin for 10 years before moving to Auckland in 1999. He is a clinical cardiologist at Auckland City Hospital, an Associate Professor with the University of Auckland and part-time at the Auckland Heart Group.

Rob Doughty has undertaken several years of research in heart failure and echocardiography and held the NZ Heart Foundation Senior Fellowship for 3 years from 1997 to 2000. He now works as an Associate Professor at the University of Auckland and consultant cardiologist at Auckland Hospital and at the Auckland Heart Group.

Ross Nicholson completed paediatric training at The Princess Margaret Hospital for Children in Perth, Western Australia and at The Freeman Hospital in Newcastle Upon Tyne. He works full time at Middlemore Hospital and part time for KIDSHEARTZ based at Mercy Integrated Hospital Epsom. Areas of interest include congenital and rheumatic heart disease and hypertension in children.

Ted Clarke trained in cardiology at Green Lane Hospital and The National Heart Hospital, London. His initial cardiology appointment was as Director of the Coronary Unit at Middlemore Hospital in 1974. In 1984 he moved to North Shore Hospital as consultant cardiologist and general physician and is now a full time cardiologist in Auckland Heart Group. His interests are in general cardiology, echocardiography, and management of acute and chronic coronary artery disease, and the management of patients with cardiac failure.

Tim Sutton trained at Bristol University in the UK, where he undertook an intercalated microbiology degree as part of his undergraduate career. He spent the first three years of his medical life initially at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, then Northampton General Hospital.

Interests: General cardiology with a focus on ischaemic heart disease, its prevention, investigation and treatment, valvular heart disease and heart failure.

Tom Gentles trained in Paediatrics in Auckland, and in Cardiology at Green Lane Hospital. He completed a Paediatric Cardiology fellowship at Children's Hospital, Boston, and Harvard Medical School. Tom was awarded a Senior Fellowship from the National Heart Foundation of New Zealand in 1994, and now works as a Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist at the Green Lane Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Service at Starship Children's Hospital, and part-time at KIDSHEARTZ with the Auckland Heart Group.

Warren Smith trained in cardiology at Green Lane Hospital and electrophysiology at Duke University, Durham. From 1997-2002 he was Clinical Director of the Green Lane Cardiac Group and is a cardiologist and electrophysiologist at Auckland Heart Group and Auckland City Hospital. He has expertise in all aspects of arrhythmias and is actively involved in research. He is chairman of the Green Lane Research and Educational Fund Board.