Dr. Michael Peer

Area of Expertise

• Lung Disease

Treatments

Positions

• Head of Chest Surgery Department at Ichilov Medical Center
• Leads a private practice and operates at HMC

Clinical Experience

• Chief of the Thoracic Surgery Department, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center
• Head of Thoracic Surgery Unit at the Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, Edith Wolfson Medical Center
• Senior Surgeon in the Thoracic Surgery Department, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center

Education

• 1995 - Graduated from Tbilisi State Medical University, MD (Republic of Georgia)
• 2007 - completed his residency in thoracic surgery at Assaf Harofeh Medical Center
• 2008 - completed a course in thoracoscopic advanced lung surgery at the Cedars-Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, USA
• 2012 - thoracoscopic esophageal surgery observer at the Cedars-Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, USA
• 2013 - robotic thymectomy observer at the Charite Hospital, Berlin, Germany
• 2013 - a course in the da Vinci training center, EEC (Ecole Européenne de Chirurgie), Paris, France
• 2015 - course of surgical controversies in thoracic surgery, a course at the endoscopic training center, ESTS, Hamburg, Germany

Medical Union Memberships

• International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Reviewer of the "Innovations" journal
• Israeli and European Associations for Endoscopic Surgery
• Israel Society of Thoracic Surgeons
• European Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Articles and Publications

• Author of more than 20 articles on the subjects of surgery for lung cancer, mediastinal and pleural pathology and others
• Frequent speaker at international and local annual meetings

Academic Position

• Lecturer at Tel Aviv University