Prof Andrew J Stewart Coats is Scientific Director and CEO of the Heart Research Institute in Sydney having recently served as Dean of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Andrew past roles have included Dean of Medicine and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney, head of Clinical Cardiology at Imperial College London, and Joint Academic Vice-President of the University of Warwick, UK, and Monash University, Australia as well as CEO of the Norwich Research and Innovation Park. He was President of the Heart Failure Association of the ESC (2020-2022). Andrew was born and schooled in Melbourne and studied medicine at Oxford and Cambridge. He has more than 150,000 citations, and an H-index of 155. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Cardiology from1999 to 2016. Andrew has been Chairman or Committee member of multiple major clinical trials and specializes in the study of heart failure.