Professor Andrew Coats is President of the Heart Failure Association and Professor of Cardiology, University of Warwick, Head of Cardiology at Imperial College London, and Associate Medical Director and Director of Cardiology at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, UK. Head of Cardiology of Imperial College, London and Associate Medical Director and Director of Cardiology of the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, London. He is an Australian-British academic cardiologist as well as a successful fundraiser, university administrator and inventor. Prof. Coats’ main interest is heart failure.

Prof. Coats is Editor-in-Chief of the Cardiac Failure Review editorial board. He has published over 20 patents and more than 650 full research papers, and has had more than 100,000 career citations, with a personal h-index of 135. Andrew was elected to the Presidential Trio of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology in 2018 and to served at its president 2020—2022.

From 2012 to 2017 he was Director of the Monash Warwick Alliance, and before that served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Medicine of the University of Sydney, Australia.