Areas of practice
- Diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer and chest tumours
- Evaluation of lung nodules and suspicious CT findings
- Bronchoscopy and interventional thoracic oncology
- Personalised (precision) medicine in lung cancer
- Early detection of lung cancer with low-dose CT screening
- Pneumonitis and lung side effects of cancer therapy
- Respiratory optimisation before chest surgery
- Second opinions
Training and positions
Medical schoolHadassah Medical School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
ResidencyInternal medicine and pulmonary medicine, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov)
FellowshipInterventional thoracic oncology and postdoctoral research, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
FacultyFaculty member, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, MD Anderson, Physician-Scientist track
- Former head of the Pulmonary Institute, Sheba Medical Center
- Co-director of the Sheba tissue bank and director of the Sheba–MD Anderson collaboration programme
- Founder and chair of the Israeli multidisciplinary lung cancer conference (since 2011)
- Among the leaders of TIGER, the Israeli Ministry of Health national pilot of low-dose CT lung cancer screening
- Board member, WIN Consortium for personalised cancer medicine
- Author of dozens of scientific papers, mainly on lung cancer genomics
In the media
- ynet (Hebrew)Lung cancer: four challenges worth knowing
- ynet (Hebrew) · 2022Ministry of Health pilot: free lung screening for smokers
- DoctorsOnly (Hebrew) · 2022Low-dose CT screening for smokers in all health funds
- Walla (Hebrew) · 2022The treatment extending the lives of lung cancer patients
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- mako (Hebrew) · 2021Genomic testing to match the most effective drug
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- Behadrei Haredim (Hebrew) · 2014Everything you wanted to know about lung cancer
- ynet (Hebrew) · 2013Video: coping with lung cancer
- mako (Hebrew) · 2012E-cigarettes: a safe way to quit?