Education
Medical School: Tbilisi State Medical University
Specialization
Asaf-Harofeh Medical Center
Known expertise
General Thoracic Surgeon
Continuing education
- Cedar-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles 2008
- Charite Medical Center, Berlin 2012
- Tor Vergata University, Roma 2016
Clinical experience
- 2010-2012 - Head Thoracic Surgery Unite, Edith Wolfson Medical Center
- 2012-2019 - Head Department Thoracic Surgery, Asaf-Harofeh Medical Center
- 2019 - Head Department Thoracic Surgery, Tel-Avivi Medical Center - Ichilov
Academic experience
Tel Aviv University
Union membership
- Israeli thoracic surgery and endoscopic surgery societies
- ESTS
- ISMICS
Areas of interest
- Minimally invasive lung surgery (thoracoscopic lobectomy)
- Major pulmonary resections following neoadjuvant chemo radiation, including reconstructive lung surgery and pneumonectomy
- Exprapleural pneumonectomy for mesothelioma
- Robotic esophagostomy & conservative esophageal surgery
- Robotic mediastinal surgery including robotic thymectomy
- Chest wall resection and reconstruction for tumors including chest wall deformities repair
- Thoracic pediatric surgery including infection, lung and mediastinal oncology and congenital pediatric surgery
- Thoracoscopic lung volume reduction surgery
- Awake plication lung surgery
- Hyperhidrosis surgery