Jean-Luc Monin recieved his medical degree in 1987 from the Université Paris XII and his PhD in 2006 from the same institution. His current position is clinical cardiology/ echocardiography in the Department of Cardiac Surgery/Institute of Heart Valve Diseases at the Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Paris. Since 2010 he has been on the organising committee of the French CardioVALVES congress.