Director, Adult Echocardiography Laboratory
The Heart Institute,
Hadassah University Medical Center
Jerusalem, Israel
Tel: (972) 2-677-6565
Fax: (972) 2-641-1028
Email: gilond@cc.huji.ac.il
EDUCATION
1975: Biology Studies, University of Paris, France
1976 -1983: Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel
1984: M.D. Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
1983: Rotating Internship, Hadassah University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
1984 -1987: Residency Program, Department of Internal Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital-Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel
1988 -1989: Chief Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Hadassah University Medical Center
1989 -1992: Fellow in Cardiology, Hadassah University Medical Center
1993: Senior Cardiologist, Staff Member, Department of Cardiology, Hadassah University Medical Center
1994 -1996: Research Fellow in Medicine, Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory, Cardiac Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MA
Thesis: Commercial sensitivity discs as antibiotic standards in MIC and MBC testing
LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATION
1987: ECFMG Certificate, Clinical Part
1987: Internal Medicine Board (part I), Israel Medical Scientific Council
1989: Internal Medicine Board (part II), Israel Medical Scientific Council
1993: Cardiology Board, Israel Medical Scientific Council, Israel
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1987 - 1990: Instructor, Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine
Medical School committee for admission of medical students
1991 - 1993: Computerization of the Hadassah Hospital echocardiography database and echocardiography patient studies reporting system
1992 -1993: In charge of Students' Teaching Program, Department of Cardiology, Hadassah University Medical Center
1993: Final examinations in Internal Medicine (sixth year)
1994: Medical School committee for fourth year Internal Medicine examinations
1996: Medical School committee for final examinations in Internal Medicine (sixth year).
1996 - Present: Chairman, Medical School committee for fourth year Internal Medicine examinations.
1996: Senior Lecturer, Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine
1996 -1997: In charge of Students’ Teaching Program, Department of Cardiology, Hadassah University Medical Center
1997- Present: Member, Hebrew University Senate, Jerusalem
1997: Inter-faculty committee for pre-internship course in urgent medicine, sub-committee on ACLS
CLINICAL APPOINTMENTS
1991 -1994: Acting Director, Adult Echocardiography Laboratory, Hadassah University Medical Center
1996 - Present: Acting Director, Adult Echocardiography Laboratory, Hadassah University Medical Center
AWARDS AND GRANTS
1993: Ita Buchler Award for Fellow in Cardiology for excellence in clinical and scientific work
1995: Session Presentation, American College of Cardiology Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO (key contribution)
1995: First Prize, Young Investigator Research Award, American Society Of Echocardiography, Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada (co-author)
1996: First Prize, Young Investigator Research Award, American College of Cardiology Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL
2000: Grant (Pending): “The evaluation of influence of Vital Clear Plus [homeopathic] on quality of life in patients with coronary heart disease” Oligo Pharma BV. Holland (D. Gilon PI)
2000 (Pre-submission): “Development of an algorithm for rapid demonstration of intra-coronary 3-Dimensional evaluation during cardiac catheterization” (D. Gilon PI)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
1984: Israel Medical Association
1988 -1990: International Society of Toxinology.
1990: Israel Heart Association
1993: American Society of Echocardiography
1993: Israel Heart Society, Sub-Committee on Transesophageal Echocardiography.
1995: Paul Dudley White Society (Massachusetts General Hospital Cardiac Unit Alumni), Boston, MA
1997: Founder, member, chairman, Israel Working Group in Echocardiography
OTHER MAJOR ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
1973 -1974: Attache, Israeli Embassy, Paris, France
1995: Co-Director, International Meeting on Non-Invasive Cardiology, Israel
1995 -1998: Co-Director, International Meeting on Non-Invasive Cardiology, Israel
1996: Founder, Echo-Jeruslem Forum for Clinical Echo Cases Presentations, Jerusalem
1996 – 2000: The Lugano International Symposium on Echocardiography. Switzerland
1997 – Present: Founder and President, Israel Working Group on Echocardiography, Israel Heart Society
CONTINUOUS MEDICAL EDUCATION (CME)
1991: Visitor, Echocardiography Laboratory, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MI
1991: Advanced Echocardiography and Doppler Ultrasound, American College of Cardiology extra mural program, San Diego, CA
1994: Update in Echocardiography, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
1995: The 7th Michael Mirowski Symposium on Arrhythmia (Atrial Fibrillation), University of Maryland at Baltimore CME Program, Baltimore, MD
1995: Clinical Computing in Patient Care: Managing care, managing opportunity, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
1995: Paul Dudley White Society, Ninth Meeting, Harvard Medical School CME course Boston, MA
1996: Participant and Faculty, Update in Echocardiography, Harvard Medical School course, Boston, MA 1998: Participant and Faculty, Update in Echocardiography, Harvard Medical School course, Boston, MA
1999: Update in Echocardiography (Harvard Medical School course), Boston, MA
2000: American College of Cardiology Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA
2000: American Society of Echocardiography, Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACTIVITIES
Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School Students:
Fourth Year: Introduction to clinical medicine, Cardiology Section; Course director: 1997 - 1998; Lecturer; Lecturer during their Internal Medicine clerkship
Sixth Year: Course director; Lecturer during Cardiology rounds; Tutoring medical and cardiology patients, at the outpatient clinic
Physicians: Residents in Internal Medicine - Lecturer on post-doctoral training
Residents in Anesthesia: Frontal lectures; Training during fellowship in the Echocardiography Unit
Specialists (trained) Anesthesia physicians: Lectures within the Anesthesia Department on training and upgrading skills in the Echocardiography Unit
University of Tel Aviv: Cardiology Fellows: Post Doctoral Courses
University of Tel Aviv: Residents in Internal Medicine: Post Doctoral Courses
Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Nursing: Intensive Care Course; preparation of the Master degree courses
Other: Advanced Course in Life Support, Hadassah University Medical Center .
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