Christian Delles is Professor of Cardiovascular Prevention, Interim Director of the Institute for Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, and Honorary Consultant Physician with NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde. His research is in the area of cardiovascular diseases where he studies markers for early diagnosis of diabetic nephropathy; the molecular basis of vascular diseases; the pathogenesis and long-term consequences of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and gestational diabetes; and differences in the pathophysiology of cardiovascular diseases between men and women. Prof. Delles serves as Treasurer of the British and Irish Hypertension Society and Honorary Secretary of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland. He is a member of national and international grant panels and associate editor and editorial board member of leading cardiovascular journals. He has a keen interest in teaching and training and currently chairs the University's Clinical Academic Training Advisory Committee.

Mary Joan Macleod MB ChB PhD FRCP is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology and Honorary Consultant Physician at the University of Aberdeen. Her main research interests are stroke epidemiology (particularly how service organisation and treatment affect outcomes after stroke), stroke clinical trials and stroke imaging. She is PI on two Chief Scientist Office grants: a) Exploring interactions between cancer and stroke in a national setting b) Using fast-field cycling MRI to identify stroke and small vessel disease. She is responsible for assessment of the final year of the MBChB course. Other roles include 1:5 cover of acute stroke admissions, Chair of NHS Grampian/University of Aberdeen Clinical Studies Oversight Group, Chair of Scotland A and B Research Ethics Committees and Honorary Deputy Secretary of the British and Irish Association of Stroke Physicians.

Bill Simpson was born and grew up in Glasgow. He studied medicine there, graduating in 1984, and continued to spend his early post graduate years around Central Scotland. In 1990 he moved to Aberdeen to finish his training in Chemical Pathology. As a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, he has held a Consultant post in the Clinical Biochemistry Department of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary since 1997. His main areas of clinical and research interest are lipids and nutrition. In 2006 he brought together some interested colleagues to form the Scottish Lipid Forum (SLF), the aim being to provide an educational programme and to develop and share strategies for the best treatment of hyperlipidaemias across Scotland. This proved quite popular, and was adopted as a vehicle for roll out of the screening programme for Familial Hypercholesterolaemia in Scotland. This opened up invitations to speak at locations from Aberdeen to Australia. Probably his most significant achievement was with a PowerPoint slide during a talk on FH in Westminster. The slide was completely blank, but the commentary, "What England is doing about FH", was taken as a wake up call by NHS England! Bill remains active in SLF and many of the other notable organisations for which he has held national roles: The Association for Clinical Pathologists (ACP) - Past President and previously Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Chemical Pathology, currently serving as Treasurer; the Association for Clinical Biochemistry (ACB) - Chair and Secretary of ACB Scotland, founding Chair of the Nutrition Group of the Clinical Practice Section; Academy of the Medical Royal Colleges - organiser of the Scottish Inter-Collegiate Nutrition Course; Royal College of Pathologists - Regional Tutor, Specialty Advisor, member of the National Quality Assurance Panel; HEART UK founder member and Champion for FH Scotland, and of course SHARP - previous co-Chair and long serving trustee.

GP with an interest in cardiology and respiratory medicine. GP Rep on Angus Adult Protection Committee. SRU Referee and International Time Keeper in my spare time, practising what I preach by keeping active. Trained under Dr TS Callaghan in Angus, when I learned how to do echocardiograms and had my own echo list at Arbroath infirmary in 2000-2001. Member of SHARP since 2001, Chair 2018/19. Member of the Angus CHP Cardiovascular Clinical Working Group from 2001, Chair from 2004-2016, during which I helped to deliver cardiovascular education at PLT and SHARP events. I was Angus Rep on the Tayside Cardiovascular MCN from 2010-2012, when I was Clinical Director for Angus CHP. GP on the SIGN Guideline 148 Acute Coronary Syndrome update in 2016.

Dr Alan G Begg has a long interest and involvement in cardiovascular disease initiatives and associated service development. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh (FRCPE) and a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners (FRCGP). He received the RCGP Scotland Alastair Donald Award in recognition of his teaching and research role in general practice and was until recently a Trustee of Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS). He represents general practice on the steering group of the National Inherited Cardiac Conditions Network. He has been active in a large range of guideline developments, their implementation, quality standards development and technology appraisals. He writes widely on the topic of cardiovascular disease and is presently a co-editor of Practical Diabetes.