Professor Gilon is a Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at the Hadassah Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. He was formerly the director of Non-Invasive Cardiology/Echocardiography of the Heart Institute and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. After having established the Cardio-Oncology service in Hadassah, he served as its director and leads Cardio-Oncology in the Shamir (formerly Assaf-Harofeh) Medical Center. Recently, he introduced Cardio-Oncology into the Maccabi Health Services. Prof. Gilon serves on the committee preparing the guidelines on Cardio-Oncology services in Israel and is Vice-President of the Israeli chapter of the International Cardio-Oncology Society. He is the founder and first chairman of the Israeli Working Group on Echocardiography of the Israeli Heart Society, and the chairman of the International Scientific Committee of the Michel Mirowski Award in Cardiology, bestowed annually at the Israeli Heart Society annual meeting. Professor Gilon trained in Internal Medicine and Cardiology in Hadassah Medical Center and completed his fellowship in the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard in Boston, U.S.A. He also leads, along with his colleagues, the active participation of Hadassah in the International Registry of Aortic Dissection (IRAD), participating (with colleagues) as a member representative of Israel on the Bicuspid Aortic Valve International Consortium (BAVCon).