FACULTY
PRESIDENT AND CHAIR
David Goitein
Professor & Chair
Bariatric & Metabolic Surgery Unit
The Chaim Sheba Medical Center
Tel Hashomer
Affiliated to the Sackler School of Medicine
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv
Eliana Hadad
Co-Chair
Bariatric Dietitian
Bariatric & Metabolic Surgery Unit
The Obesity Treatment Clinic
The Chaim Sheba Medical Center
Tel Hashomer
Affiliated to the Sackler School of Medicine
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv
Jenny Cina
Co-Chair
Clinical and Health PsychologistBariatric & Metabolic Surgery UnitHead psychologist -The Obesity Treatment ClinicThe Chaim Sheba Medical Center Tel HashomerAffiliated to the Sackler School of MedicineTel Aviv University, Tel Aviv
INTERNATIONAL FACULTY
Gerhard Prager
Prof. of Bariatric Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Antonio Torres
Department of Surgery,
Hospital Clínico San Carlos,
Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Facultad de Medicina, Complutense
University of Madrid
Thomas Rutledge
Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSD, USA
LOCAL FACULTY
Ahmad Assalia
Director of advanced laparoscopic and bariatric surgery
Rambam Health Care Campus and Technion Faculty of Medicine
Haifa, Israel
Nahum Beglaibter
Happily unemployed
Former Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery
Dept. of Surgery Hadassah University Hospital
Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel
Yael Eshbal
Clinical Psychologist
Sheba
Zipi Haetzni
Clinical Psychologist, University of Haifa- School of Public Health
Keidar Andrei
Department of Surgery, Assuta, Ashdod,affiliated with Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Gabriella Lieberman
Endocrinologist
The Chaim Sheba Medical Center
Tel Hashomer
Shai Meron Eldar
Head of Bariatric Surgery
Tel Aviv Medical Center - Ichilov
Yaron Munz
Department of General Surgery and Vascular Disease.
Barzilai Medical Center, Ashkelon
Nasser Sakran
Chair, Israel Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
Shiri Sherf-Dagan
Department of Nutrition, Ariel university and Assuta Medical Centers
Amir Szold
Medical Director, Assia Medical
CMO, Human Xtensions
Carmil Azran
Director of medical technology department, Maccabi Healthcare Services, Israel
Oleg Dukhno
Head of Bariatric Surgery Unit
Soroka University Medical Center
Anya Feigin
Bariatric & Metabolic Surgery Unit
The Chaim Sheba Medical Center
Tel Hashomer
David Hazzan
Director, Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery Unit,
The Chaim Sheba Medical Center
Tel Hashomer
Yafit Kessler
Registered dietitian at Assia Medical Group and PhD candidate in the department of Nutrition Sciences, School of Health Sciences Ariel university.
Ahmad Mahajna
Director, Surgery Simulation Service, Rambam Health Care Campus-Haifa, Israel. Division of Advanced Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery
Department of General Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus-Haifa, Israel. Clinical Assistant Professor, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Noga Minsky
Endocrinologist at the Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer, Israel
Maya Mizrahi
Health psychologist and licensed hypnotherapist
Private practice
Shimon Sapojnikov
Director of bariatric surgery Dep. at Rabin Medical Center.
Gideon Sroka
Department of Surgery, Bnai-Zion Medical Center, Haifa Israel
Orit Yogev
Clinical psychologist
