Avi Ben-Shushan

MD
Positions: Head of the Gynecology Department, Head of the Gyne-oncology Department, the Hadassah University Hospital.
Experience: 34 years

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Areas of Expertise and Treatment

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EDUCATION
1987 — graduated from the Ben-Gurion University Medical School (Beer Sheva, Israel).

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

• 1987-8 — internship at the Sheba MC (Tel Hashomer, Israel).
• 1989-95 — specialization in gynecology at the Hadassah University Hospital (Jerusalem, Israel).
• 1998 — specialization in urogynecology at St. George’s clinic (London, UK).
• 2000-2002 — specialization in onco-gynecology at St. Mary’s Hospital at the University of St. Louis (Missouri, USA).
• Since 2002 — Head of the Oncogynecology Department at the Hadassah University Hospital.
• 2004 — leading specialist in laparoscopic gynecological surgery in onco-gynecology at the European Surgical School (Ecole Européenne de Chirurgie, Paris, France).
• 2008 — Leading specialist in robotic gynecological surgery in onco-gynecology at Mt Sinai Hospital, Miami Beach, Florida, USA.

AWARDS AND HONORS:

• 2018-20 — was included in the list “The Best Doctors of Israel” published annually by FORBES magazine.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

• The Israeli Association of Gynecology
• The Israeli Association of Onco-gynecology
• The American Association of Gynecology
• The International Association of Gynecology
• The International Association of Oncogynecology

LANGUAGE SKILLS
English, Hebrew.