Clinical and research activities of the Department of Neurosurgery include all neurosurgical sub specialties: Benign and malignant brain and spinal cord tumors, Pituitary tumors, Cerebro Vascular surgery, Stereotactic and Functional surgery, Radiosurgery, Spinal surgery, Pediatric Neurosurgery and the management of Head and Spinal Cord Trauma.
The department has an active academic schedule: A weekly Clinical Grand Round, a weekly Seminar, a weekly Tumor Board, a monthly Mortality and Morbidity conference and a monthly Journal Club.
The department is involved as an alpha site in the development and implementation of an intra-operative MRI system, developed by the Israeli startup Odin Medical Technologies. This project is located in a dedicated operating room in the advanced technology center on the Sheba Medical Center campus.
More than 350 operations were performed by our team with this iMRI system that is currently the leading iMRI system in the world.
The department is academically affiliated with the Sackler School of Medicine at the Tel Aviv University. The senior staff members hold faculty positions.
There are six residents in active training. The staff is involved in teaching medical students and also physicians in the school of continuing medical education.
Research includes basic research in collaboration with leading universities and research institutions such as the Weitzman institute of science. Clinical studies on malignant brain tumors, development of intra-operative MRI, spinal cord regeneration and head Trauma are currently ongoing.
The clinical activity of the Department is conducted through the following sub-units:
Stereostatic and Functional Neurosurgery and Radiosurgery Unit
Neuro-Oncology Unit
Cerebrovascular Service Unit
Spinal Surgery Service
Pediatric and Epilepsy Unit
Benign Brain Tumors Unit
| Department at a Glance |
| Number of Beds - 30 Adult Beds, including 4 ICU Beds and 10 Pediatric Beds. |
| Number of Inpatients per Year - 3,000 (Including children) |
| Number of Operations per Year - 1500 |
| Number of Outpatients per Year - 3600 |
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Director - Prof. Moshe Hadani
Prof. Hadani was born in 1949, and graduated from the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem in 1977. He was trained as a clinical and Research Fellow in Cerebrovascular Disease in the department of Neurosurgery at N.Y.U Medical Center in New York (1984-1986). He received further training in pituitary surgery at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center (1988).
In 1991 he was appointed for a period of four years as Secretary of the Israel Society of Neurosurgery. Since 1994 he has served as the Director of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Chaim Sheba Medical Center, and is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Tel Aviv University.
Prof. Hadani and his colleagues are involved in the development of an internationally leading, Israeli produced, intra-operative MRI system, and in the first human study of spinal cord regeneration. Professor Hadani has published over 75 scientific papers.
Prof. Hadani is a member of many scientific societies, such as the Israel Society of Neurosurgery, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, New York Academy of Science and the Society of Neuroscience, U.S.A. |
| Address - The Charles Clore HospitalizationTower, West Wing |
| E-mail - Moshe.Hadani@sheba.health.gov.il |
| Tel - 972-3–530-2650 | |
