The Heart Institute, Hadassah University Hospital

Prof. Dan Gilon MD

Director, Adult Echocardiography Laboratory, The Heart Institute, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel Vice Dean of Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University Medical School
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 Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel.

1984 M.D. Degree, Hadassah and Hebrew University Medical School

Post Doctoral Training:

1983 Rotating internship, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.

1984-1987 Residency Program, Department of Internal Medicine, Hadassah Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel.

1988-1989 Chief Resident, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.

1989-1992 Fellow in Cardiology, Hadassah University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.

1993- Senior Cardiologist, Staff Member, Cardiology Department, Hadassah University Medical Center, Jerusalem.

1994-1996 Research Fellow in Medicine, Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory, Cardiac Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.

Thesis:

Commercial sensitivity discs as antibiotic standards in MIC and MBC testing.

Licensure and Certification:

1987 ECFMG Certificate, Clinical Part

1987 Internal Medicine Board Examination (part I), Israel Medical Scientific Council.

1989 Internal Medicine Board Examination (part II), Israel Medical Scientific Council.

1993 Cardiology Board Examination, Israel Medical Scientific Council, Israel.

Academic Appointments:

1987-1990 Instructor, Hadassah Mt. Scopus and Ein-Karem University Hospitals, Jerusalem.

1996- Senior lecturer.

Hospital Appointments:

1991-1994 Acting Director, Adult Echocardiography Laboratory, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem.

1996-(present) Acting Director, Adult Echocardiography Laboratory, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem.

Other Professional Positions:

1975 Biology Studies, University of Paris - France.

Other University Appointments:

Medical school committee for admission of medical students.

1993 Final examinations in internal medicine (6th year).

1994 Medical school committee for 4th year internal medicine examinations.

1996 Medical school committee member for final examinations in internal medicine (6th year).

1996-present Chairman, medical school committee for 4th year internal medicine examinations.

1997present Member, Hebrew University Senate, Jerusalem..

Inter-University Responosibility:

1997 InterFaculty committee for pre-internship course in urgent medicine, sub-committee on ACLS.

Awards and Grants:

1993 Ita Buchler Award given to a Fellow in Cardiology for excellency in clinical and scientific work.

1995, (March) Key contribution Session Presentation, American College of Cardiology Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

1995, (June) 1st Prize Young Investigator Research Award of the American Society Of Echocardiography, at the Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada. (Co-author).

1996, (March) 1st Prize Young Investigator Research Award, American College of Cardiology Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, USA.

2000 (Pending) The evaluation of influence of Vital Clear Plus [homeopathic] on quality of life in patients with coronary heart disease. $15,000, 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).

Memberships, Offices, and Committee Assignments in Professional Societies:

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, USA.

1997 Israel Working Group in Echocardiography (Founder, member and chairman).

Major Administrative Responsibilities:

1973-1974 Attache, Israeli Embassy - Paris, France.

1991-1994 Acting Director, Adult Echocardiography Laboratory, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.

1992-1993 In charge of Students Teaching Program in the Cardiology Department, Hadassah University Hospital.

1996-1997 In charge of Students Teaching Program in the Cardiology Department, Hadassah University Hospital.

1991-1993: Computerization of the Hadassah Hospital echocardiography database and echocardiography patient studies reporting system.

Continuous Medical Education (CME):

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 Michael 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, CA,USA

2000 (June) American Society of Echocardiography, Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA

Organizing Local and International Meetings:

1995 Co-Director of the International Meeting on Non-Invasive Cardiology (Israel)

1995-1998 Co-Director of the International Meeting on Non-Invasive Cardiology (Israel - 1998)

1996 Founder of the Echo-Jeruslem Forum fir Clinical Echo Cases presentations, Jerusalem.

1996-2000 The Lugano International Symposium on Echocardiography (Switzerland).

1997 Founder and First (until present) of the Israeli Working Group on Echocardiography (within the Israel Heart Society)

Teaching Responsibilities and Activities:

Medical Students

4th Year
Introduction to clinical medicine Cardiology Section
Course director 1997-8
Lecturer
Lecturer of 4th year medical students during their clerkship in Internal Medicine.

6th Year
Course director
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 (trained) Anesthesia physicians:
Lectures within the anesthesia Department
On their training/ reaquantance in the Echocardiography Unit.

Fellows in Cardiology at the University of Tel-Aviv:

Post Doctoral Courses

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 Nurse School.

Others:

Advanced Course in Life Support (at the Resuscitation School of Hadassah)