Dr. Ariel Roguin is a graduate of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion– Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. He completed Fellowships in Cardiology at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa and in Cardiovascular Diseases at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.Dr. Roguin received his Doctorate from the Technion– Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa where he is currently a Senior Lecturer. He is also a Senior Attending Physician in the Department of Cardiology and is the Director of Interventional Cardiology at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa.Dr. Roguin heads a research lab in the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine. His research interests are in the fields of percutaneous treatment of heart disease as well as coronary disease and genetics, and in understanding the differences in collateral formation between people.Dr. Roguin has a special interest in cardiac imaging and is a member of the Rambam Cardiac CT team. His studies on MRI safety in patients with pacemakers and ICDs are known worldwide.He has received numerous research and teaching awards, including the Israel Heart Society’s Neufeld Foundation Award for original work, the Fulbright - United States-Israel Educational Foundation Post-Doctoral Award, the Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine Annual Research Meeting Award for Best Clinical Research, the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention’s Young Investigator Award in Cardiovascular Radiology, and the Israel Academy of Science’s Batsheva de Rothschild Grant,and the Morasha Grant.