Dr. Adrian Giucă is a senior year Cardiology fellow in Romania's largest cardiovascular institution - "Prof. Dr. C.C. Iliescu" Emergency Institute, who dedicated the first years of his training to clinical cardiology, imaging (particularly echocardiography in different clinical scenarios - IHD, VHD, cardiomyopathies and structural heart interventions) and research (conducted his PhD on cardiac disease in systemic sclerosis) and is currently pursuing a career in interventional cardiology. Dr. Nina Ajmone Marsan is a cardiologist who specializes in non-invasive cardiovascular imaging and currently working at the Leiden University Medical Center (The Netherlands), where she is a Senior Academic Researcher. She is also the principal investigator of translational research projects in mitral and aortic valve disease, for which she won the prestigious Dekker Clinical Established Investigator Grant of 2021. She is on the board of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) as echo councillor and Chair of the Education Committee 2020-2022. She is also a mentor for ESC and EACVI young members and director of the international courses "EACVI TOE teaching course", "3Dechocardiography: meet the experts" and "Madrid Valve" held yearly. Her main research topic is the clinical applications of imaging in cardiovascular disease, with a special focus on valvular heart disease (including guiding trans-catheter interventions), cardiomyopathies and systemic disease.