About Me
Area of Expertise
Treatments
Positions
- Head of the gastroenterology and hepatology department at Meir Medical Center, Israel
- Leading gastroenterologist at Herzliya Medical Center
Clinical Experience
- 1979-1980 - house officer, Turku Military Hospital, Finland
- 1988-2004 - staff gastroenterologist and since 1992 responsible for hepatobiliary services, Ichilov Medical Center, Tel-Aviv. In 1999 appointed director of invasive endoscopy and deputy head of the gastroenterology department.
Education
- 1973 - B.Sc in physics, Technion University, Haifa
- 1979 - Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, MD
- 1988 - completed his residency in gastroenterology, Ichilov Medical Center, Tel-Aviv
- 1990-1992 - postdoctoral research fellow, division of gastroenterology, Brigham and Women's hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
Medical Union Memberships
- Israel Medical Association
- Finnish Medical Association
- Israel Gastroenterological Association
- Israel Association for the Study of Liver
- American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
- American Liver Foundation
- American Association for the Study of Liver
- The American Gastroenterological Association
- Israel Transplantation Society
- American Society for Gastroenterological Endoscopy
Articles and Publications
Academic Position
- Since 1996 - professor of medicine at Tel-Aviv University
- Since 2001 - director of the Minerva center for cholesterol gallstones and lipid metabolism in the liver, Tel-Aviv University
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