Offer Amir

Professor
Positions: Head of the Heart Institute, Hadassah University Hospital.
Experience: 32 years

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Areas of Expertise and Treatment

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EDUCATION
1989 — Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel).

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

• 1989 — Internship, Nahariya Western Galilee Hospital & Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center.
• 1990-1995 — Military Physician; IDF.
• 1996-9 — Internal Medicine Residency Program University of Texas, Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas. Certified in Internal Medicine in the USA and in Israel.
• 1999-2000 — Chief Medical Resident, University of Texas, Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas.
• 2000-2003 — Cardiology Fellowship Program Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel.
• 2004-2006 — Senior Physician, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel.
• 2006-2011 — Director, Heart Failure Service, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center & Clalit Health Services-Haifa District Haifa, Israel.
• 2011-2013 — Director, Heart Failure Unit, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center & Clalit Health Services-Haifa District Haifa, Israel.
• 2013–21 — Director of the Cardio-Vascular Department at the Poriya Medical Center (Israel).

ADDITIONAL POSITIONS:

2012-present — Israel National Coordinator & member in the International Steering Committee European Society of Cardiology, European Heart Failure Association for the European Heart Failure Registry.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

• The Israeli Association of Cardiologists
• The International Association of Cardiologists
• Member in the Israeli National Council for Prevention & Treatment of Cardio-Vascular Diseases (2015-present)
• National Israeli Heart Failure Working Group (2011-2013 — Elected Chairman)
• Fellow of American College of Cardiology (FACC)
• European Society of Cardiology
• European Society of Heart Failure
• Alabama Medical Society

LANGUAGE SKILLS
English, Hebrew.