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Dr. Barak Rosenzweig, MD, directs the Urological Oncology Service at Sheba Medical Center. He is a uro-oncologic surgeon with nearly 20 years of experience. He treats complex urologic cancers with advanced robotic and minimally invasive methods. He is listed among Israel’s Best Doctors by Forbes.

Expertise includes tumors of the prostate, kidney, bladder, testis, and upper urinary tract. He performs robotic radical prostatectomy, kidney-sparing partial nephrectomy, and advanced laparoscopy. Diagnostics include MRI-guided fusion biopsy and imaging-based personalized planning.

He completed a Urological Oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is a Senior Physician in the Department of Urology and a Clinical Senior Lecturer at Tel Aviv University. He is a graduate of the Sheba Talpiot program. He is an active researcher with over 200 publications in urologic oncology.

Professor Dov Zippel is a general surgeon and surgical oncologist. He specializes in breast disease and melanoma. He leads the Meirav Breast Center at Sheba Medical Center. He also serves at the Ella Lemelbaum Institute for Immuno-Oncology. In 2025, Forbes Israel named him to its Best Doctors list.

Expertise: advanced care for benign and malignant breast tumors. Minimally invasive and breast-conserving surgery. Surgical treatment of melanoma and other skin cancers.

Accreditations: MD, Tel Aviv University. Residency in general surgery, Sheba Medical Center. Fellowship in surgical oncology, University of Calgary. Board-certified in general surgery and surgical oncology. Research includes intact breast lesion excision and perioperative BRAF inhibitors for stage III melanoma.

Dr. Einat Shacham‑Shmueli is a senior medical oncologist at the Gastrointestinal Clinic, Cancer Center, Sheba Medical Center. She treats cancers of the colon, stomach, and pancreas. She also manages metastatic disease. She uses precision diagnostics and biomarkers, systemic therapies, and radiotherapy. Care is provided within a multidisciplinary team.

She has authored more than 25 peer‑reviewed papers on GI oncology, tumor biology, and new treatments. Her work includes studies on stenting for malignant colonic obstruction. She serves as an investigator in international programs, including the NCI, the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group, and the Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program.

Education: MD, Tel Aviv University. Oncology residency, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. Advanced training in GI oncology, UCSF. Accreditations: Board certified in Oncology and Gastroenterology. Member, Israel Society of Oncology and Radiotherapy.

Dr. Alon Friedlander, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon and a spine and scoliosis specialist for adults and children. He is the Director of the Orthopedic Department at Sheba Medical Center. He is also an Associate Professor of Orthopedics at Tel Aviv University. He is listed by Forbes among Israel’s Top Doctors.

He treats complex spine disorders with minimally invasive and open surgery. His procedures include anterior and posterior fixation. His focus areas are scoliosis and other deformities, tumors, stenosis and instability, and disc herniation. Education: MD, Tel Aviv University; residency, Sheba Medical Center. Fellowships: Institut Mutualiste Montsouris and University Hospitals of Strasbourg (France); Queen Mary Hospital and the Duchess of Kent Children’s Hospital (Hong Kong).

Advisory roles: IDF referral physician. Consultant to soccer teams. Specialist for the Spartak Basketball Club (knee injuries).

Prof. Amit Tirosh is a senior endocrinologist and Head of the Neuroendocrine Tumors Service at Sheba Medical Center. He specializes in neuroendocrine tumors (NETs).

His work centers on hereditary NET syndromes. He is affiliated with the NIH in MEN1 research. He serves on an international VHL expert panel and helped write VHL management guidelines. He is the primary contact at Sheba’s multidisciplinary VHL clinic.

He leads the Endocrine Oncology Bioinformatics Lab. He collaborates with international teams, including the Weizmann Institute. He provides advanced NET care, including PRRT.

He earned his MD from the Hebrew University–Hadassah. He completed a residency at Assaf HaRofeh, an endocrinology fellowship at Rabin, and training at the NIH. He is board-certified in Endocrinology. He is a member of the Israeli Society of Endocrinology, the Endocrine Society, and the European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society. He has authored over 40 peer-reviewed papers, including in JAMA, Gastroenterology, and Radiology.

Dr. Shira Felder is a senior radiation oncologist. She focuses on gynecologic and urologic cancers. She has advanced expertise in VMAT, IMRT, SBRT, and gynecologic brachytherapy. She delivers precise treatment with fewer side effects.

She heads the Gynecologic Oncology Service at Sheba Medical Center. She is a senior physician in the Radiation Oncology Division. She earned her MD at Hadassah. She completed residency at Sheba and a fellowship in the Radiation Medicine Program at the University of Toronto and Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. She is board-certified in Radiation Oncology. She is a member of ESTRO, the Israeli oncology societies, the CPSO, and the CMA.

Her research covers brachytherapy patient safety. It also includes stereotactic ablative radiotherapy for stage I lung cancer. She has studied treatment delays in cervical cancer. She has examined vitamin D deficiency in oncology patients.

Dr. Almog Ben-Yaacov is an Attending Surgeon in the Department of General and Oncological Surgery (Surgery C) at Sheba Medical Center. He specializes in cytoreductive surgery (CRS) with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC). His clinical focus includes gastric cancer, sarcoma, and complex colorectal malignancies. Since 2018, he has performed more than 200 HIPEC procedures.

MD, Semmelweis University, 2006, with honors. Training in cardiothoracic surgery at Sheba Medical Center. Residency in general surgery at Montefiore (Albert Einstein) and at Rabin (Beilinson). Board-certified in General Surgery and in Surgical Oncology.

Advanced training includes ESSO-certified HIPEC in Hamburg. Microwave liver ablation in Reims. NanoKnife at King’s College London. Advanced surgical oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering (2019). His publications cover CRS+HIPEC outcomes and Hartmann’s reversal.

Dr. Yuri Goldes is a general surgeon with more than 20 years of clinical experience. He specializes in upper gastrointestinal and oncologic surgery. He is Deputy Director of the Department of General Surgery and Transplantation at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv. He also leads the Upper GI Surgery Unit. He was named to Forbes Israel’s Best Doctors in 2025. He is ranked among Israel’s Best Gastrointestinal Surgeons by Forbes. In 2019, he received the Israeli Ministry of Health “Best Doctor of the Year” award.

He is an expert in advanced minimally invasive and robotic surgery. He treats diaphragmatic hernia, achalasia, GERD, and gallbladder disease. He also performs oncologic surgery for pancreatic, gastric, and esophageal cancers. He uses laparoscopic and robotic techniques.

He pioneered some of Israel’s first robotic oncologic resections of the stomach and pancreas. He is among a small group worldwide who perform minimally invasive Whipple procedures (pancreaticoduodenectomy) using advanced laparoscopy. He applies methods that improve outcomes and speed recovery. He provides personalized care.

Known Expertise 

Medical Oncologist 

Academic Position 

Senior Lecturer 

Education

Bar-Ilan University, Israel / Computational Biology 

Israeli Society for Health-Tech / Fellowship by IMA/ Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Medicine and Health-Tech 

Sheba Medical Center and Bar-Ilan University, Israel/ Genomics and Biomedical Informatics 

Semmelweis University/Doctor of Medicine 

Training and Specialization 

Clinical observership in acute oncology, early phase clinical trials and lung cancer/ Guy's and St. Thomas hospital, London, England 

Leader Shift, Executive Development Program, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center 

Fellowship Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Medicine and Health-Tech 

Resident, Medical Oncology, TASMC, Israel 

6th year medical school rotations, Kaplan Medical Center, Israel 

Rotation, intensive care unit and pulmonology, Stony Brook hospital, NY, US 

Clinical Experience 

Leader of the TASMC oncology project of PSIFAS, the Israeli National Genomic Medicine Initiative 

PI for study initiator trial: T-Cell Repertoire sequencing as clinical efficacy tool for pembrolizumab (with platinum based chemotherapy) in advanced NSCLC. 

PI for study initiator trial: T-cell repertoire sequencing as a clinically efficacy tool for neoadjuvant immunotherapy plus platinum-doublet chemotherapy for resectable NSCLC. 

Representative of the National Medical Association for the National Council for the Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Malignant Diseases, as well as head of the oncology field, Leumit HMO 

Consultant on drugs and operations in the field of oncology, Leumit HMO 

Member of the Helsinki Committee for Clinical Studies, TASMC 

Primary investigator (PI) in pharmaceutical phases I&III clinical trials Head of oncology day-care service, TASMC, Israel 

Molecular Tumor Board (MTB) moderator of the Israeli Lung Cancer Society 

NGS interpretation clinic alongside head of pathology, TASMC, Israel 

PI for study initiator trial: Genomic Variant of BCL-2 as a Novel Predictor of Response to Paclitaxel, TASMC, Israel 

Medical oncology clinic in the field of lung and breast cancer, TASMC, Israel

Leading sub-investigator (SI) in many phase I-III clinical trials in oncology, including intra-tumoral injections (mRNA, viruses and NO), TASMC, Israel 

Courses 

Good Clinical Practice ICH GCP R2 & Israeli MOH Guidelines Updated Course 

Point-of-Care Ultrasound course, Israeli Medical Association 

GCP training Bioforum 

GCP training Bioforum

Investigator Site Personnel ICH GCP Training Certificate - TransCelerate BioPharma 

Academic Experience 

Lecturer in the Department of Medical Education at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at Tel Aviv University 

JIMS Journal Club - Instructor for students. 

Guidance of Dr. Aviv Berkovich M.D in basic science: cfDNA NGS for identification ofprimary and acquired resistance in patients with Lung Cancer and EGFR mutations. 

TASMC, Israel in collaboration with The Tisch Cancer Institute Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY USA 

Training team for oncology residents, TASMC, Israel 

Mentor for new intern, TASMC, Israel 

Tutor for medical students in oncology clerkships, Tel-Aviv University, Israel 

Honors 

Outstanding teacher in the faculty of medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

 Outstanding teacher in the faculty of medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel 

Sign of honor for reserve medical personnel for the battle in Lebanon, IDF

Completion of residency final examination (shlav Beit) with honors 

Israeli society for clinical oncology and radiation therapy (ISCORT) 17 research grant competition winner 

Affiliations 

Israeli Medical Association (IMA) 

Israeli Society for Clinical Oncology and Radiation Therapy (ISCORT) 

The Israeli Lung Cancer Group (ILCG) 

European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) 

International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) 

The International Society of Liquid Biopsy (ISLB) 

The Israeli Society for Health-Tech 

Boards 

Co-founder, board member and treasurer of the Israeli Acute Oncology Society 

Clinical Research Association Board of Directors on behalf of the Israeli Lung Cancer Group 

Member of the Trustees of Oncology Innovation, TASMC, Israel 

Doctor of Medical Service IDF 

Areas of interest 

Thoracic malignancies, 

early to late phase clinical trials, 

intra-tumoral injections, 

comprehensive genomic profiling of tumors, 

liquid biopsies: cfDNA, TCR rep-seq and epi-Genetics; 

cell therapy

Dr. Ido Wolf is a specialist in Oncology, Internal Medicine, and the Army Medical Units with a degree from Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He is currently the Head of the Medical Oncology Division at Sourasky Medical Center and speaks English.

Dr. Aharon Amir is the Chief Surgeon of Plastic Surgery at Sourasky Medical Center. He specializes in complex reconstructions of the head, face, neck, and chest. Dr. Amir focuses on restoring form after tumor removal, trauma, or birth defects. He practices at Assuta Medical Center, a JCI-accredited facility in Tel Aviv.

• Heads the microsurgery service at Mount Carmel Medical Group.
• Maintains membership in the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery.
• Authored over 30 scientific papers on reconstructive microsurgery.
• Trained in microsurgical reconstruction at The Toronto General Hospital in Canada.

Dr. Viviean Drory is a neurologist at Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv. She is a certified specialist in clinical neurophysiology and electromyography. Her work focuses on diagnosing and treating neuromuscular disorders and ALS. She uses both drug therapies and palliative care to help her patients.

• Trained at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Louisiana.
• Member of the International Research Alliance for Motor Neuron Disease Research.
• Sits on the Association of Neurologists of Israel and European Research Group.
• Practices at a hospital ranked among the world's top 10 by Newsweek.

The doctor is a world-renowned plastic surgeon with over 35 years of practical experience. Specializing in liposuction, mammoplasty, and Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) surgery, the doctor is part of the team at Sourasky Medical Center, focusing on mommy makeover procedures.

The doctor is a highly experienced neuro-oncologist with a focus on treating brain and spinal cord tumors. She completed her neuro-oncology training at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center from 1996 to 1998. Since 1998, she has served as a senior neuro-oncologist, demonstrating extensive clinical expertise. She was the director of the Neuro-oncology Service at the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah from 1998 to 2005, where she led advancements in neuro-oncological care.

The doctor is an experienced specialist in Bone Marrow Transplantation, having graduated from the Hebrew University Medical School in 1999. Following this, the doctor specialized in internal medicine at Hadassah Medical Center. The doctor later joined the Bone Marrow Transplantation department at Hadassah as a senior physician, contributing significant expertise to the field.

Dr. Michael Krasnoshtein leads the Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Unit at Sourasky Medical Center. He specializes in treating PTSD, ADHD, and complex anxiety disorders. Dr. Krasnoshtein works with patients from the Israeli Ministry of Defense and Security.

• Serves as a senior psychiatrist at Sourasky Medical Center and Maccabi Health Services.
• Holds a clinic assistant role at Tel Aviv University.
• Treats conditions including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and autism.
• Member of the Israel Psychiatric Association and the EMDR Institute of Israel.

Dr. Oren Shebolet heads the Liver Unit at Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv. He specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic hepatitis and genetic liver diseases. Dr. Shebolet is a recognized expert in managing autoimmune liver pathologies and complex liver conditions.

• Authored over 60 scientific publications and presented at 100 medical conferences.
• Performs liver transplants and complex treatment for pancreatitis.
• Member of the American and European Associations for the Study of the Liver.
• Works at Sourasky Medical Center, ranked among the world's best hospitals by Newsweek.

Dr. Aviva Fatal-valevsky directs the Pediatric Neurology Unit at Sourasky Medical Center. She is an expert in treating pediatric brain neurogenetic disorders. Dr. Fatal-valevsky treats children with epilepsy, autism, and West syndrome. She provides complex diagnostics and creates personalized treatment plans.

• Member of the International Child Neurology Association.
• Performs deep brain stimulation and medication treatment for epilepsy.
• Specializes in pediatric development and inherited metabolic disorders.
• Works at Sourasky Medical Center, ranked among the World's Best Smart Hospitals.

Dr. Faran Dafna is a specialist in lupus and antiphospholipid syndrome at Sourasky Medical Center. She gained clinical training at the Lupus Unit of St Thomas' Hospital in London. Dr. Dafna serves as a Senior Lecturer at Tel Aviv University. She works at Israel's largest multidisciplinary hospital, ranked among the world's best by Newsweek.

• Authored over 50 scientific publications and 30 reports on rheumatological conditions.
• Maintains membership in the Israeli Association of Rheumatologists.
• Is an active member of the American College of Rheumatology.
• Treats complex autoimmune cases using clinical insights from University College London.