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Biography
I am a graduate of Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem in 1980. I did my general surgery residency in Israel and then completed a transplant fellowship in the US.
I served as the director of the largest transplant center at Rabin Medical Center until 2018 before moving to my current position as the head of the transplant center at Sheba Medical Center.
I was the first to introduce in Israel several new transplant techniques such as split and living related liver transplantation in children and in adults, ABO incompatible transplants and pair-exchange transplants.
I am a full professor of surgery in Tel-Aviv University and an active academic surgeon who published more than 200 peer-review papers and presented more than 100 of my original research works at national and international meetings and congresses.
I am a member of several international transplant societies (ESOT, ITS, ASTS , IPTA) and served on the editorial board of Pediatric Transplantation Journal and as a reviewer of various leading transplant journals including American Journal of Transplantation, Transplantation, Liver Transplantation, Journal of Clinical Medicine, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
I served 25 years as a member on the board of Israel Transplant Center I am a past president of Israel Transplant Society (2006-2008). I was the Israeli representative at the UEMS (Union European for Medical Sciences) transplant committee for 15 years until last year.
My research work is focused mainly on clinical aspects of kidney and liver transplantation including immunosuppression, infections and ABO incompatible transplantation and HLA desensitization as well as ethical aspects related to living donation.