Personal Details
Place of Birth: Tel Aviv, Israel
Family Status: Married, 3 children
Wife: Rachel - Publisher
Military Service 1969-1972 - Paratrooper, Israeli Defense Forces
1973-1974: Attache, Israeli Embassy - Paris, France
Address: Bnei Betira 13/11, Jerusalem
Telephone: Home 02-6791493
Work 02-6776564
Fax: 02-6411028
e-mail: dangi@ekmd.huji.ac.il
Higher Education
1975 University of Paris – France, studies in Biology
1976-1983 Hebrew University-Hadassah Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel.
MD degree: 1984
1983 THESIS: Commercial sensitivity discs as antibiotic standards in MIC and MBC testing
1994-1996 Research Fellow in Medicine, Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory, Cardiac Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA..
Appointments at the Hebrew University
1986 Instructor
1/10/1996 Senior lecturer (Internal Medicine/Cardiology)
1/12/2001 Associate Professor of Medicine (Internal Medicine/Cardiology)
10/2007 Professor of Medicine (Internal Medicine/Cardiology)
Additional Functions/Tasks at The Hebrew University (last 5 years)
1996-2000 Chairman, committee for Examinations in Internal Medicine 4th year
1997-2004 Senate Member (representing senior lectures and associate professor), Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2000 – 2005 Vice-Dean, Faculty of Medicine
2005 - 2009 Chairman of Academic Appointments Committee, Faculty of Medicine
2009 – present Vice-Dean, Faculty of Medicine
Additional Functions at Hadassah Medical Center
1993-Current Senior Cardiologist, Staff Member, Cardiology Department/Heart Institute, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center
2004-Current Director of Echocardiography Unit, Non- Invasive Cardiology, Heart Institute, Hadassah- Hebrew University Medical Center (Acting Director since 1997)
2006- Chairman of Committee for Guidelines, Acute Aortic syndromes diagnosis and treatment approach – Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center
2008- Member, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center Medication Committee
2009 - Member, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center IRB (Helsinki) Committee
Service in other Academic and Research Institutions
Teaching at Other Institutions:
Fellows in Cardiology: Post Doctoral Courses - University of Tel-Aviv
Residents in Internal Medicine: Post Doctoral Courses - University of Tel-Aviv
Judge of MA and PhD dissertation (Ad-Hoc) – Technion (Israel Technology Institution)
Other Activity (Memberships in editorial boards, organization of conferences, awards, public function)
1973-1974 Attaché, Israel Embassy - Paris, France.
1993-4, 2004: Computerization of the Hadassah Hospital echocardiography database and echocardiography patient studies reporting system.
Committees
1994-1996 Member Sub-Committee on Transesophageal Echocardiography, Israel Heart Society
1996-2000 Chairman, committee for Examinations in Internal Medicine 4th year
1997-2001 Chairman and founder, Echocardiography working group, Israel Heart Society
2001-2005 Member Ethical Committee, Israel Heart Society
2001-2005 Member Committee for the final national examination in internal medicine.
2007- Chairman, Committee for Infective Endocarditis prophylaxis (new) guidelines, Israel Heart Association and Israel Society of Microbiology and Infectious Disease. (Co-Chairman with Prof. Y. Zigman-Igra)
Meetings organization
1995,6,7,8 Co-Director of the International Meeting on Non-Invasive Cardiology
1996 Founder of the Echo-Jerusalem Forum for Clinical Echo Cases presentations, Jerusalem
1996,7,8,9,2000 Organizing Committee, The Lugano International Symposium on Echocardiography (Switzerland)
2000 Organizer, Israel Echocardiography Working Group Session at the 4th EuroEcho (Annual Meeting of the European Echocardiography Society), Lisbon, Portugal
2001 Israel Working Group on Echocardiography/Several meeting per year (since 1997).
2002 The Israel-Rappaport-Mayo Meeting on Echocardiography. Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2003 Harvard Course in Echocardiography. Boston, MA, USA.
2009 Hadassah First International Aortic Stenosis Meeting
CME (Continuous Medical Education) - Partial List
1991 (May)- Visitor to the Echocardiography laboratory, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
1991 (June) - Advanced Echocardiography and Doppler Ultrasound (American College of Cardiology extra mural program), San Diego, California.
1994 (Oct.) - Update in Echocardiography (Harvard Medical School course), Boston, Massachusetts.
1995 (April) - The 7th Michel Mirowski Symposium on Arrhythmia (Atrial Fibrillation) (University of Maryland at Baltimore CME Program), Baltimore, Maryland.
1995 (Sept.) - Clinical Computing in Patient Care: Managing care, managing opportunity
(Harvard Medical School course), Boston, Massachusetts.
1995 (Oct.) - Paul Dudley White Society, Ninth Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts.
(Harvard Medical School CME course).
1996 (Oct.) - Update in Echocardiography (Harvard Medical School course), Boston, Massachusetts. (Participant & Faculty).
1998 (Oct) Update in Echocardiography (Harvard Medical School course), Boston, Massachusetts. (Participant & Faculty).
1999 (Oct) Update in Echocardiography (Harvard Medical School course), Boston, Massachusetts. (Participant).
2000 (March) American College of Cardiology Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, USA
2000 (June) American Society of Echocardiography, Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA
2001 (June) American Society of Echocardiography, Annual Meeting, Seattle, USA
2001 EuroEcho – 5th Annual meeting of the European Working Group on Echocardiography, European Cardiology Society, Nice, France.
2002 The Israel-Rappaport-Mayo Meeting on Echocardiography. Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2002 European Society of Cardiology, Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany.
2003 European Society of Cardiology, Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria
2004 European Society of Cardiology, Annual Meeting, Munich, Germany
2005 European Society of Cardiology, Annual Meeting, Stockhom, Sweden
2006 American Society of echocardiography, Annual Meeting, Baltimore, USA
2007 American College of Cardiology Annual Meeting, New-Orleans, USA
2008 American College of Cardiology Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA
2009 Harvard Course in Cardiovascular Imaging, CT-MR Boston, USA
2010 American College of Cardiology Annual Meeting, Atlanta, USA
Professional Societies
1984- Israel Medical Association
1988-1990 International Society of Toxinology
1990- Israel Heart Association
1993- American Society of Echocardiography
1995- Paul-Dudley-White Society (Massachusetts General Hospital Cardiac Unit Alumni), Boston, MA, USA
1997- Israel Working Group in Echocardiography, Israel Heart Society (Founder) (Chairman 1997- 2001)
2000- Fellow of the American College of Cardiology
Awards and Citations
1993 Ita Buchler Award given to a Fellow in Cardiology for excellence in clinical and scientific work.
1995 Key contribution Session Presentation, American College of Cardiology Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
1995 1st Prize Young Investigator Research Award of the American Society Of Echocardiography, at the Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada. (Co-author)
1996 1st Prize Young Investigator Research Award, American College of Cardiology Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, USA.
2001 …… Chosen One of Best Lecturers of the Year, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah Faculty of Medicine
2002 The Prof. H. Neufeld Memorial Research award, for the Best BSF Grant of the year.
2005 1st Prize Young Investigator Award, Zwirn G, Beeri R, Gilon D, Akselrod S. Endocardial and Epicardial Boundary Identification. Computers in Cardiology. Annual Meeting. Lyon, France. September. (co-author)
2005 1st Prize Winner of the Young Investigator Award. May D, Gilon D, Itin A, Djonov V, Jacobson J, Rechavi G, Keshet E. A VEGF-based Transgenic Model for Myocardial Hibernation. A VEGF-based Transgenic Model for Myocardial Hibernation. Israel Heart Society, Annual Meeting (co-author).
2007 Neufeld award for best publication in 2006. "The transcription factor MITF (Microphthalmia Transcription Factor) regulates cardiac growth and hypertrophy". J of Clinical Investigation.. Israel Heart Society Annual Meeting. Tel-Aviv.
2008 Excellence in Teaching Award, Faculty of Medicine, Hadassah-Hebrew University.
Reviewer of Journals
Circulation
European Heart Journal
European Journal of Echocardiography
Heart
American Heart Journal
American Journal of Cardiology
Critical Care Medicine
Israel Medical Association Journal
Teaching at The Hebrew University
1992-1993 In charge of Students’ Teaching Program in the Cardiology Division
Supervision of Master’s and Doctoral degree students
(partial list)
1999 - Iris Leitersdorf – MD: Early Thrombolysis in Acute MI: Effect on Heart Failure.
2000 - Omri Lubowski – MD: Aortic regurgitation in the Elderly. Co-supervisor – Prof. Yonatan. Hasin.
2002 - Yaron Helman – MD; RV function as a predictor in Heart failure patients. Co-supervisor – Dr. Dan Admon.
2003 - Amos Cahan – MD: Clinical experience did not reduce the variance in physician's estimates of prestest probability in a cross sectional survey. Co-supervisor – Prof. Ora Paltiel.
2006 - Sagit Stern – MD: The role of decision analysis in the approach to a patient with PFO and TIA. Co-supervisor – Prof. Meir Brezis.
2006 - 2007 Sarit Helman - MD: A new rapid and exact method to compute LV ejection fraction by Echo. Co-supervisor - Dr. Ronen Beeri.
Post-doctoral Fellows and Visitors (6 months or longer)in last 5 years
2002-2007 - Sagi Tschori, MD - Ph.D. The transcrition factor MITF (Microphthalmia Transcription Factor) regulates cardiac growth and hypertrophy.Co-supervised with Prof. Ehud Razin. This thesis has resulted, in part, in a recent publication in the J. of Clinical Investigation (IF=15.3) Ref-61.
Graduated Cum Laude
Courses taught
Faculty of Medicine
2nd Year Medical students
Integrated clinical and basic science in Cardiac physiology.
Lecturer.
(Newly introduced as part of integrative approach in the pre-clinical years if medical school).
4th Year
Introduction to clinical medicine – Cardiology Section
Course director (past)
Lecturer
Lecturer of 4th year medical students during their clerkship in Internal Medicine.
6th Year
Course director (past)
Lecturer 6th year students during their 3 weeks round in Cardiology x 8-9 groups per year.
Tutoring at the outpatient clinic (medical and Cardiology patients)
Physicians
Residents in Internal Medicine:
Lecturer on their post Doctoral training
Residents in Anesthesia
Frontal lectures
Training during their fellowship in the Echocardiography Unit
Specialists Anesthesia physicians
Lectures within the anesthesia Department
On their training (1 – 3 fellows/Y)/ re-acquaintance in the Echocardiography Unit
Fellows in Cardiology at the University of Tel-Aviv
Post Doctoral Program
Residents in Internal Medicine at the University of Tel-Aviv
Post Doctoral Courses
Nurses
Intensive Care nurses course
In preparation of the Master courses at the Nursing School.
Others
Advanced Course in Life Support (at the Resuscitation School of Hadassah)