Philippe Debonnaire (MD, PhD, FESC) graduated in 2011 as cardiologist at Leuven University (Belgium), obtained a Master degree in Sports Medicine and then performed non-invasive cardiac imaging doctoral research at Leiden University Medical Hospital, the Netherlands, supported by an ESC Research Grant. He obtained a PhD degree in 2016, promoted by Prof Jeroen Bax and co-promoted by Prof Victoria Delgado and Prof Nina Ajmone Marsan. Since 2013 he works as cardiologist in Sint-Jan Hospital Bruges (Belgium). His clinical and scientific focus remains on (advanced) echocardiographic techniques (3D, strain, stress, TOE) for the diagnosis, management and therapeutic interventional guiding of patients with valvular disease, cardiomyopathies (amyloidosis) or other structural heart problems, with ongoing publications. He is BWGNICI president and former EACVI HIT and Education Committee board member, responsible for the echocardiography imaging fellowship in his centre.