HIGHER EDUCATION
- 1995-1998: Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical School, B.MedSc.
- 1998-2001: Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical School, M.D.
POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING
- 2002-2003: Intern, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
- 2003-2006: Resident, Department of Surgery, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel.
- 7/2006-6/2007 Resident, Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, NY. (Exchange program)
- 7/2007-6/2010: Resident, chief resident, Department of Surgery, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel.
- 7/2010-6/2012: Endocrine and MIS fellow, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
- 7/2012-7/2017: Attending, General and Endocrine Surgery, Department of Surgery, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel
- 8/2017-present: Chief-of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel
APPOINTMENTS
- 2008-2011: Clinical Instructor, Department of Surgery, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Mount Scopus
- 2010 – 2012: Clinical Instructor, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
- 2011-2012: Attending, General and Endocrine Surgeon Department of Surgery, William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI
- 2011–2016: Lecturer, Senior Staff, Department of Surgery, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Mount Scopus
- 2016 – present: Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Surgery, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Mount Scopus
OTHER ACTIVITY
Additional Functions / Tasks at Hadassah Medical Center:
- MVA prevention for high school students: 2008-present
- Committee for violence prevention: 2010
- Institutional Review Board (Helsinki Committee): 2013-present
- Emergency planning committee: 2013-2015
- MD theses committee: 2013-2017
- Re-evaluation of medical school curriculum committee: 2013-2017
- Medical education committee: 2013-2017
- Clinic efficiency committee: 2014-2015
- Debriefing workshop: 2016
- Chairman, National Med School Surgery Curriculum: 2017-2018
- Chairman, Teaching assessment committee: 2017-present
Membership in Scientific and Medical Societies:
- Israel Surgical Society
- The American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES)
- International Association of Endocrine Surgeons (IAES)
- Association for Academic Surgery (AAS)
- American College of Surgeons (ACS)
International and National Society Committees:
- AAS publication committee, Member, 2012-2015
- Israel Endocrine Surgery Society, Chairman: 2017-present
- AAES program committee, Member, 2017-
- Israel National Surgical Council, Member, 2018-present
HONORS AND AWARDS
- 1998: Faculty Prize for M.D. Thesis: Glycine and D-cycloserine attenuates vacuous chewing movements in a rat model of tardive dyskinesia.
- 2004 Outstanding Instructor
- 2005 Outstanding Instructor
- 2006 Outstanding Instructor
- 2007 Outstanding Instructor
- 2008 Outstanding Instructor
- 2009 Oral boards in general surgery with distinction
- 2010 Residency with Distinction Award
- 2011 Outstanding Fellow Educator Award
- 2011 Recipient of travel award (IAES, Japan)
- 2012 Travel award – Collaborative Research forum
- 2016 Best Video Presentation (EAES, Amsterdam)
- 2016 Theses outstanding award for M.Sc. student (Tova Deutch): Hadassah – Hebrew University Medical Center M.D. thesis instructor: Comparison between the ratios of tissue volume to tumor volume removed during Breast Conserving Surgery in young and older women and the relation between those ratios to local recurrence rate. Itamar Sagiv, Tanir Allweis, Haggi Mazeh.
- Faculty Award Winning Jan 2008.
AD-HOC REVIEWER
- The Lancet
- Annals of Surgery
- Langenbeck’s Archive of Surgery
- British Journal of Surgery
- Thyroid
- Surgical Endoscopy
- Annals of Surgical Oncology
- The Oncologist
- Surgery
- European Journal of Endocrinology
- European Journal of Surgical Oncology
- Journal of Surgical Research
- Oncotarget
- Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy & Percutaneous Techniques
- Expert Review of Endocrinology and Metabolism
- Journal of Endocrinological Investigation
CASE REPORTS IN MEDICINE
- Journal of the Southern Medical Association
- BMC Endocrine Disorders
- Endocrine
- International Journal of Molecular Sciences
- International Journal of Endocrine Oncology
- World Journal of Surgical Oncology
- SciTechnol
- World Journal of Clinical Cases
- Current Medical Imaging Reviews
- Acta Cytologica
- International Journal of Endocrinology
- European Endocrinology
- Clinics in Surgery
- Archives of Clinical Gastroenterology
- Molecular Imaging and Biology
- Case Reports in Surgery
- US Endocrinology
EDITORIAL BOARD
- World Journal of Surgery
- Journal of Surgical Research 2011-2018
- Global Journal of Surgery
- World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
- World Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
- International Journal of Endocrinology (Guest editor)
RESEARCH GRANTS
- 2010: Israel Cancer Association – Development of a microRNA based molecular FNA assay for the detection of thyroid cancer, 45,000 NIS.
- 2010-11: NANETS – Young clinical investigator award. The role of Notch1, 2, &3 in neuroendocrine tumors, $50,000
- 2013: Israel Cancer Association – The use of a microRNA panel to identify thyroid malignancy in FNA residual cells and the effect of these microRNAs on target genes, 45,000 NIS
- 2013: Hadassah Joint research Fund – The use of a microRNA panel to identify thyroid malignancy in FNA residual cells and the effect of these microRNAs on target genes, $10,000
- 2014: Israel Cancer Association – The use of a microRNA panel to identify thyroid malignancy in FNA residual cells and the effect of these microRNAs on target genes, 30,000 NIS
TEACHING AT THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY
- MD thesis (medical students):
- Itamar Sagiv 2006-2008. Comparison between the ratios of tissue volume to tumor volume removed during Breast Conserving Surgery in young and older women and the relation between those ratios to local recurrence rate. In collaboration with Prof. Tamar Peretz and Dr. Tanir Alweis. Grade 95. (JSR 2013, #29)
- Yair Levi 2009-2010.Development of a micor RNA based panel for the detection of malignancy in undetermined malignancy samples in fine needle aspirations. In collaboration with Prof. Aviram Nissan. Grade 95. (JSR 2013, #30)
- Amitai Lorber 2009-2010. Development of a micor RNA based molecular assay for the detection of thyroid cancer. In collaboration with Prof. Aviram Nissan. Grade 90. (Thyroid 2011, #11)
- Oded Cohen 2010-2012. Prospective validation of a surgical complications grading system in a cohort of 2114 patients. Grade 92. (JSR 2014, #41)
- Yael Asayag 2013-2015. Conservative management of colon diverticulitis.Grade 84. (JSR 2018, #53)
- Eran Kuchuk 2013-2015. The utility of cholecystostomy tube as part of the conservative management of acute calculus cholecystitis. Grade 90. (Surgery 2015, #47)
- Mirit Toledano 2013-2015. Development and assessment of a laparoscopic pointer. Grade 91.
- Yaron Rudman 2014-2015. In-vitro inhibition of miRNAs in papillary thyroid cancer cells. Grade 94.
- Yahav Cohn 2015-2016. Comparison between appendectomy outcomes performed by residents and senior surgeons. Grade 94. (JAMA Surgery 2017, #51)
- Amram Kupietzky 2017-2018. Interval appendectomy outcomes (JSR 2018, #55)
- Kira Kaganov 2017. Comparison between operations performed before and after changes in ATA guidelines. (JAMA Otolaryngol Head & Neck 2018, #57)
- May Assaly 2015-2017. Accuracy of MIBI, ultrasound, and CT scans in localizing parathyroid adenomas. Grade 97. (Surgery 2018, #58)
- Adi Karas 2016-2017. micro RNA deep sequencing of thyroid FNA samples. (Cancer Epidemiol, Biomarkers Prev. 2018, #59)
- Aus Maree 2016–2018. Rate of malignancy in indeterminate thyroid nodules.
DEVELOPMENT AND SUPERVISING 4TH YEAR SURGERY CURRICULUM.
- Development of 4th year Surgery National Curriculum Jan 2017
- National and International Conferences Organization:
- Medullary Thyroid Cancer: June 2014, Hadassah Mount Scopus
- Parathyroid: June 2016, Hadassah Mount Scopus
- Israel Surgical Association: May 2018, Jerusalem
- Adrenal: June 2018, Hadassah Mount Scopus