| Alexis Palacios-Macedo | Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran. Mexico City |
| Hiromi Kurosawa | Heart Institute of Japan, Tokyo Women's Medical University |
| Nestor Sandoval | Instituto de Cardiopatias Congenitas |
| Christo I Tchervenkov | The Montreal Children's Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre |
| Jeffrey P Jacobs | Johns Hopkins All Children's Heart Institute, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital and Florida Hospital for Children |