
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
