Associate Professor David Prior is Deputy Director of Cardiology and Director of Non-invasive Cardiac Imaging at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne. After training in cardiology at the Alfred Hospital, he completed a PhD in heart failure at the Baker Heart Research Institute and subsequently an advanced cardiac imaging fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, USA. He has worked at St Vincent’s Hospital since 2000 and is an Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne. Major clinical and research interests are in heart failure management, cardiac imaging (including echocardiography and cardiac MRI), sports cardiology, exercise physiology and pulmonary hypertension.