Dorit Shaham

Professor
Positions: Head of the Thoracic Imaging Center, Hadassah University Hospital.
Experience: 29 years

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Areas of Expertise and Treatment

Diagnostic radiology:

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EDUCATION
1988 – Graduated from the Medical Faculty of the Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel).

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

• 1995 – specialization in diagnostic radiology at the Hadassah University Hospital (Jerusalem, Israel).
• 1997 – specialization in the thoracic imaging department, Cornell Medical Center (New York, USA).
• 2003 – Research work in the Thoracic Imaging Department, Cornell Medical Center.
• Since 2007 – Head of the Thoracic Imaging Department at the Hadassah University Hospital.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Founded and led the Adam veRefuah Medical Humanities Study Program at the Hebrew University School of Medicine.
• 1998 – founded the first lung cancer screening program in Israel at the Hadassah University Hospital, which became part of the International Early Lung Cancer Screening Program (I-ELCAP).
• Studied the effectiveness of low-dose computer tomography of the chest.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

• The Israeli Association of Radiologists
• The International Association of Radiologists

LANGUAGE SKILLS
English, Hebrew.