Prof. Gianluca Pontone was graduated with honors in medicine in 1997 followed by post-graduate degree in cardiology and radiology and PhD in Clinical Methodology in 2001, 2006 and 2014 at University of Milan, Italy. He is currently Deputy Scientific Director and Director of Perioperative Cardiology and Cardiovascular Imaging Department and Co-director of Sport Cardiology Unit of Centro Cardiologico Monzino, a fully dedicated research hospital to cardiovascular disease and Professor of Cardiology at University of Milan. He is author of more than 650 indexed articles on international journal with an overall H-index of 69. He is currently chairman of EACVI Industry committee, EACVI board member and chairman of Italian Working group of Cardiovascular Imaging of Italian Society of cardiology. He is also associate editor of JACC, EHJCI, JCCT, Atherosclerosis and Eurointervention