Dr. Alain Bouchard is a clinical cardiologist at Cardiology Specialists of Birmingham, AL. He is a native of Quebec, Canada and trained in Internal Medicine at McGill University in Montreal. He continued as a Research Fellow at the Montreal Heart Institute. He did a clinical cardiology fellowship at the University of California in San Francisco. He joined the faculty at the University of Alabama Birmingham from 1986 to 1990. He worked at CardiologyPC and Baptist Medical Center at Princeton from 1990-2019. He is now part of the Cardiology Specialists of Birmingham at St. Vincent's Health System, Ascension.

Mustafa Ahmed, MD, is a Structural Heart Specialist, Interventional Cardiologist and Scientist. He is the director of the Structural Heart Disease Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is a leading performer of minimally invasive heart procedures including the Mitraclip procedure, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR/TAVI), atrial septal defects, ventricular septal defects, paravalvular leak repair and other complex structural heart defects. He is credited with several first-of-their-kind procedures and internationally recognized in areas including valvular and surgical heart disease and POTS.

He was born in Nottingham, England, and went to medical school at the Victoria University of Manchester. Dr Ahmed moved to Birmingham, AL, where he was the first ever person selected for the highly competitive Physician Scientist Training Program with specialization in cardiology and interventional cardiology.