Shmueli Hezzy, Dr.

Telephone: 04-7748749

E-mail: [email protected]

Specializations:

• Internal medicine 
• Cardiology 
• Echocardiography 
• Structural heart disease 
• Maternal heart disease

Positions and appointments:

• 2026 - Cardiology Department Director, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center 
• 2024-2026 - Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Director, Soroka Medical Center, Beer Sheva 
• 2020-2024 - Intermediate Cardiac Care Unit Director, Soroka Medical Center, Beer Sheva 
• 2017-2018 - Senior Physician, Cardiology Division, Ichilov Medical Center, Tel Aviv

Education:

• Doctor of Medicine (MD), Faculty of Medicine, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva

Residency:

• Internal medicine - Ichilov Medical Center, Tel Aviv 
• Cardiology - Ichilov Medical Center, Tel Aviv

Fellowships:

• 2018-2020 - Echocardiography, structural heart disease, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA
• 2018-2020 - Maternal heart disease, LAC-USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA

Professional affiliations:

• Israeli Medical Association 
• Israel Cardiology Association 
• European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 
• Independent Physicians, Maccabi Healthcare Services

Special areas of interest:

• Echocardiography 
• Cardiac intensive care 
• Valvular heart disease 
• Structural heart disease 
• Planning, management and follow-up of maternal heart disease in pregnancy

Research interests:

• Principal investigator in several international studies 
• Author of over 35 academic articles published in leading journals in the field