Dr. Elisabeth Pieske-Kraigher
is Managing Director of the Echo Core Lab Berlin. She has extensive expertise in the field of echocardiography including echo reading and overreading. She trained as clinical sonographer at the Department of Cardiology, Medical University Graz, Austria, Harvard Medical School Boston, and Charité Berlin. She obtained in-depth additional training in 2012 and 2013 as a fellow at the Imaging Core Lab (ICL), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard, Boston, USA under the supervision of Prof. Scott Solomon and Prof. Marc Pfeffer. At the ICL Harvard, she was responsible for overreading processes for images of ongoing clinical heart failure trials and the certification of sonographers. She gained intensive experience in novel echocardiographic techniques including strain and strain rate, and 3D speckle tracking and was responsible for training new team members. In 2014 she began establishing the central Echo Imaging Core Lab at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin with successful internationl auditing.In her position as Managing Director of the ECL Berlin Dr. Pieske-Kraigher has since been responsible for central reading, analysis and data quality control of a number of international clinical trials sponsored by industry, the European Commission, and German funding authorities. She is the author of numerous peer reviewed articles (published under her maiden name Dr. Elisabeth Kraigher-Krainer).

Dr. Belyavskiy
is a cardiologist with broad noninvasive cardiovascular imaging experience. He has extensive expertise in echocardiographic analyses in clinical trials and is currently involved in echocardiographic research projects focused on diastolic stress echocardiography and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

Aravind Kumar Radhakrishnan
is a medical doctor with broad noninvasive cardiovascular imaging experience and specific expertise in research related to echocardiography and cardiac imaging studies. He is working on a number of completed and ongoing clinical trials and is currently doing his doctorate at the Charité – University Medicine.

Dr. Daniel A. Morris
is a cardiologist with wide ranging experience in echocardiography certified by the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI Certification in Adult Transthoracic Echocardiography) and with a university specialization in echocardiography (Université Paris XII – Diplôme Inter Universitaire). Dr. Morris is highly involved in clinical echocardiographic research with a focus in new echocardiographic methods and speckle tracking echocardiography. These are the topics of his recent publications and his doctoral thesis at the Charité – University Medicine.

Robin Kraft
is a medical doctor specialized in clinical research echocardiography. He divides his time between the Echocardiographic Department of Charité – University Medicinel and the Echo Core Lab Berlin. Dr. Kraft is currently involved in different research projects on new echocardiographic methods in heart failure patients.

Mr. Kropf's, MSc
research interest is data mining and predictive modeling. He is currently doing his PhD at the Institute for Semantic Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery, Technical University Graz, Austria. His daily business in the lab involves close collaboration with the clinical researchers, data management, providing guidance in technical issues, data analysis and protocol development.