Dr Gianluca Pontone, MD, PhD, FESC, FSCCT (@GPontone1973) graduated with honors in medicine in 1997 followed by post-graduate degree in cardiology and radiology at University of Milan in 2001 and 2006 respectively. He is currently director of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and deputy director of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography Unit of Centro Cardiologico Monzino where the University of Milan is based and  He is author of 220 articles on national and international journal, 7 scientific books, more than 400 abstracts and 326 lectures at national and international meetings in the field of cardiovascular imaging. He is currently in the board of directors of Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), chairman of CT certification committee of European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) and chairman of working group of cardiac magnetic resonance of Italian society of cardiology.