Wojciech Kosmala is a graduate of the Wroclaw Medical University and a specialist in internal medicine and cardiology. He has been dealing with echocardiography since 1990. He is an expert in the Echocardiography Section of the Polish Cardiac Society. He is an Associate professor at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, and the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia. He is a multiple prize winner of the Polish Cardiac Society, the Rector of the Wroclaw Medical University, the Minister of Health, and the “Ten of the Best Awards 2014” of the Menzies Institute for Medical Research and the “Best of Baker Awards 2016” of the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute. He is a co-author of the American Society of Echocardiography textbooks “ASE’s Comprehensive Echocardiography” and “ASE's Comprehensive Strain Imaging”. He is the grant director of the National Science Center. He is a member of the Editorial Board of JACC Cardiovascular Imaging. He is one of the initiators of the study of stress echocardiography in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. His current directions of research are the mechanisms of the development of impaired exercise tolerance, the preclinical stage of heart failure, heart failure with a preserved ejection fraction, structural diseases of the heart muscle, cardiac function in arterial hypertension, valvular heart disease, and the heart after transplantation.