Dr Nicole Bart is a Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney. In addition, she has subspeciality interests in advanced cardiac imaging, pulmonary hypertension, and cardiac genetics. She studied medicine at the University of New South Wales, where she graduated with Honours. For her doctoral work she undertook studies to investigate the effects of iron on the cardiopulmonary system. She was awarded a DPhil from the University of Oxford which was funded by a prestigious Sir John Monash Scholarship. She is a Conjoint Senior Lecturer for UNSW and Notre Dame University. Dr. Bart is the lead of the infiltrative cardiomyopathy group at St Vincent’s Hospital/Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute and has established a state-of-the-art multidisciplinary amyloid clinic. Through the clinic patients are offered specialist cardiology, neurology, and haematology care as well as genetic counselling. Dr. Bart’s research group focuses on causes of cardiomyopathy