Liat Appelbaum

MD
Positions: Director, Ultrasound Institute, Hadassah University Hospital.
Experience: 20 years

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Areas of Expertise and Treatment

Medical imaging:

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EDUCATION
1997 – graduated from the Medical Faculty of the Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel).

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

• 1997-8 – Internship at the Hadassah University Hospital (Jerusalem, Israel).
• 1999-2003 – specialization in radiology at the Hadassah University Hospital.
• 2005 – specialization in medical imaging of the abdominal cavity at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of Harvard University (USA).
• Since 2011 – Head of the Diagnostic and Invasive Ultrasound Department at the Hadassah University Hospital.

AWARDS AND HONORS

• 2019-20 – was included in the list “The Best Doctors of Israel” published annually by FORBES magazine.
• 2018 – the first in Israel to use ultrasound with the new SonoView contrast agent for the diagnosis of liver and kidney cancer.
• Upon returning from her internship in the United States, she founded a malignant tumor ablation center at the Hadassah clinic.

ADDITIONAL POSITIONS:

• Chairwoman of the Israeli Medical Ultrasound Association

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

• The Israeli Association of Medical Imaging
• The Israeli Association of Medical Ultrasound
• The International Association of Medical Imaging

LANGUAGE SKILLS
English, Hebrew.