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Specialties:
Internal medicine, cardiology, and invasive cardiology.
Positions and appointments:
Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Unit in the Cardiac Division, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera.
Studies:
The Faculty of Medicine at the Technion, Haifa.
Residency:
Ichilov Hospital (internal medicine, cardiology, and invasive cardiology)
Fellowships:
Interventional Cardiology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, (UCLA), Los Angeles, California
Academic appointments:
Assistant Clinical Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, the Technion, Haifa.
Memberships in professional associations and organizations:
Israeli Medical Association
Israel Heart Society
European Society of Cardiology
European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions
Special interest areas:
Invasive cardiology (coronary artery disease, cardiac catheterizations, imaging techniques and physiological assessment – IVUS, iFR)
Development of innovative medical and technological devices.
Previous clinical experience:
Internship at the Rambam Health Care Campus, 1981
Residency in internal medicine at Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv, 1982-1985
Residency in cardiology and interventional cardiology at Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv, 1986-1990
Fellowship in interventional cardiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, 1995-1997
Research:
Emotional stress and coronary artery disease, results for treatment by coronary artery bypass
Prevention of recurrent carotid artery stenosis treated with stents
Imaging techniques and physiological assessment (IVUS, iFR) and adapting them to angiography
Development of innovative medical and technological devices for cardiology (several patents in the field)
Winner (twice) of the Henry Neufeld Award for outstanding research in the Israel Heart Society, 1992 and 1995.
Winner of prize for the excellent research on the day of the study, Hillel Yaffe, 2014.
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