Areas of practice
- Airway disease, including severe asthma and COPD, and biologic therapy
- Interstitial lung disease and pulmonary fibrosis
- Pulmonary hypertension, CTEPH and follow-up after pulmonary embolism
- Chronic cough and evaluation of shortness of breath, including interpretation of cardiopulmonary exercise tests (CPET)
- Bronchiectasis and smoking cessation
- Spirometry and interpretation of lung function tests
- Respiratory optimisation before surgery
Training and positions
Medical schoolTechnion, Israel Institute of Technology
ResidencyInternal medicine and pulmonary medicine (with distinction), Sheba Medical Center
Clinical fellowshipPulmonary hypertension, Vienna General Hospital (AKH)
Research fellowshipRheumatology, AKH Vienna
TeachingDean’s award for excellence in medical teaching
SocietiesBoard member, Israel Society of Pulmonology
- Clinical research in airway disease, pulmonary hypertension and exercise physiology
- Teaches medical students and supervises graduate students
- Active in developing artificial-intelligence tools in medicine
In the media
- ynetnews · 2026Why Ventolin vanished from Israeli pharmacies, leaving asthma patients scrambling
- ynetnews · 2026Shortness of breath during air raid sirens: what happens in the body and how breathing can calm anxiety
- ynet (Hebrew) · 2025Think it’s just asthma? You may have a rare disease
- ynet (Hebrew)After years of life-threatening asthma, Tal can dream of becoming a mother
More articles (6)
- Podcast (Hebrew)“Breathing Conversations” (Lanshom association): living with pulmonary hypertension
- Walla (Hebrew) · 2024You know this disease, but probably not that it can be life-threatening
- Walla (Hebrew)Dying of guilt: why smokers reach the doctor too late
- Haaretz (Hebrew)Study: parental disapproval cuts teens’ risk of starting to smoke by about 70%
- DoctorsOnly (Hebrew) · 2024Adempas: an oral option for pulmonary arterial hypertension
- OnLife (Hebrew)Angels in white: doctors and nurses who volunteered for IDF soldiers