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Dr. Dov Shimon is the founder and has been Chief Executive Officer of SagaX Technologies for Medicine, Inc. since 2002. He is a renowned cardiac and thoracic surgeon. In 1977, he graduated with honors from Hadassah Hebrew University Medical School. From 1974-1994, Dr. Shimon trained as a surgeon and cardiothoracic surgeon at Hadassah University Hospital in Israel. From 1984 to 1986, he was the chief resident in cardiovascular surgery at the University of Toronto, Canada. In 1986, he was a heart transplantation fellow at the Medical College of Virginia. He was appointed senior cardiothoracic surgeon at Hadassah in 1987 and was tenured in 1989. He headed Israel’s transplant program from 1987 to 1992. In Israel, Dr. Shimon pioneered heart transplantation (1967), lung transplantation (1989), and heart-lung transplantation (1993). He has performed more than 8,000 open-heart operations and thousands of other thoracic operations. Dr. Shimon has more than 17 years of experience in animal and clinical testing of medical devices. He was previously a director of the Artificial Heart Institute in Salt Lake City, UT. He is currently a member of numerous medical and scientific societies, including Mensa International, and has authored many peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Shimon retired as Major from the Israel Defense Forces’ Medical Corp. reserves (Paratroopers Battalion), where he had been decorated in 1972. He gained wide experience and has served as a senior military surgeon during the war in Lebanon in 1982-1983 and multiple smaller scale battles. Dr. Shimon completed Senior Business Management studies at Tel Aviv University, School of Management in 1996. He has been working since 1999 with medical device companies in the design and implementation of their preclinical and clinical studies. | 