Dr 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 director of Cardiovascular Imaging Department of Centro Cardiologico Monzino, a fully dedicated research hospital to cardiovascular disease where the University of Milan is based. He is author of more than 300 indexed articles on international journal, several scientific books, more than 500 scientific abstracts and lectures at national and international meetings in the field of cardiovascular imaging. He is currently in the board member of SCCT, EACVI, chairman of CT certification committee of European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI), past chairman of working group of cardiac magnetic resonance of Italian society of cardiology and deputy chairman of working group of cardiac computed tomography of Italian society of Cardiology.