Leshem Eran, Prof.

Phone: 04-774-4075

Email: [email protected]

Specialties:

• Internal medicine
• cardiology
• electrophysiology

Positions and appointments:

• Director of the arrhythmias and pacemaker unit, Hillel Yaffe MC.
• 2019-2022 - Senior physician at Davidai Arrhythmia Institute, cardiology unit, Sheba.

Education:

• Doctor of Medicine (MD), Faculty of Medicine, Ben Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, Israel.
• Master's degree in Health Systems Administration, School of Management, Ben Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, Israel.

Residency:

• Internal Medicine "E", Tel Aviv Medical Center

Fellowship:

• Cardiology, Tel Aviv Medical Center

Further training:

• Research fellowship: 2015-2017
• Cardiovascular Institute, Animal Research facility, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
• Clinical fellowship: 2017-2019.
• Cardiac electrophysiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston USA.

Membership in professional organizations:

• The Israeli Medical Association (IMA)
• The Israel Cardiology Association
• European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)

Areas of special interest:

• Biophysics of ablation technologies.
• Innovative treatments in electrophysiology and pacing.
• Complex ablations for the treatment of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias.
• Extraction of implanted cardiac devices.
• Conduction system pacing.

Research activities:

• Principal investigator in a large number of studies.
• Published over 70 academic articles in peer reviewed journals.

Summary:

Dr. Eran Leshem graduated medical school (Cum Laude) at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He then specialized in internal medicine and cardiology at the Tel Aviv Medical Center. After completing his residency and fellowship, Dr. Leshem completed a four-year research and clinical fellowship training in the field of cardiac arrhythmias at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, USA), one of the leading medical centers in the world, affiliated to Harvard University medical school.

During his work in the USA, Dr. Leshem was extensively involved in the research of ablation technologies and cardiac mapping and assisted in the development of cutting-edge technologies and techniques in the field, and published close to 20 works on these topics.

Upon his return to Israel, Dr. Leshem joined the cardiac unit at Sheba Hospital, as a senior physician at the Davidai Institute for Arrhythmias.

In July 2022, he joined Hillel Yaffe Medical Center as the director of the electrophysiology and pacemaker unit at the hospital.