Dr. Avi Hefetz
ENT surgeon, Director of Head and Neck Surgery Department, Assuta Hospital.
Education:
1981-1987: Tel-Aviv Sackler Medical School, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
MD degree. Awarded 1987.
Title of Doctoral Thesis: The management of acute cholecystitis in elderly patients.
Academic Experience:
1996-1997 Research fellowship -study of chemopreventive agents) Memorial Sloan Kettering Medical Center, New York, NY
1997-1998 Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot. Otolaryngology Instructor – nursing school.
1999-2001 Fellowship in Oncologic Surgery of the Head and Neck, Oklahoma University, Oklahoma City, OK
2001-2009 Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. Otolaryngology: Lectures to residents and medical students.
Clinical Experience:
1987-1988 Internship: Rivka-Ziv hospital, Tzfat and Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv.
1988-1993 Residency: Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot.
1996-1997 Research fellowship. The use of curcumin and green tea as chemopreventors of head and neck cancer: a cell culture project Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New-York, NY.
1999-2001 Clinical fellowship. Oncologic Surgery of the Head and Neck, Oklahoma University Health and Sciences Center, Oklahoma city, OK.
2001-2009 Attending and Senior Head and Neck Surgeon, Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv.
2009 - present Attending Surgeon, ARAM Center of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Assuta Medical Center, Tel Aviv
2009 - present Chairman of the Israeli Society of Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology
Academic and Professional Awards:
1989 Prize. The syndrome of inappropriate anti-diuretic hormone secretion after bilateral neck dissections. The surgical forum, Oklahoma Health and Sciences Center, 5/2000.
2006 Research Grant from the Israeli Cancer Society on :"The effect of curcumin as a radiosensitizer on human SCC: in an in-vivo model"
Membership In Professional Societies:
1987-present: Israel Medical Association.
2001-present: American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery.
1998-present: Israeli Society of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery.
2004-present American Head and Neck Society (active membership)
Active Participation In Scientific Meetings
- The society of Head and Neck Surgeons. Toronto, Canada 1995.
- The society of Head and Neck Surgeons, Can-Cun, Mexico, 1997
- The New-York society of Head and Neck Surgery, paper session, New-York, 1997.
- Memorial Sloan Kettering cancer Center, Department of surgery, 1997.
- The Israeli Society of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery.Israel, 1998.
- The 2nd International Symposium in Israel on Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology, Jerusalem, November 5th, 1998
- Israeli Society of Otolaryngology, 2000.
- International symposium on Head and Neck Surgery, San-Francisco, July, 2000..
- Triological Society, Middle section, Chicago January, 2001..
- The annual meeting of the Israeli Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
- The annual meeting of the Spanish Society of Otolaryngology, LaCoruna June, 2002
- The 6th international research forum for Basic Science in Head and Neck Surgery, Virginia 10/2002
- The 2nd world Congress of the international federation of Head and Neck Oncologic Societies, Brazil 11/2002.
- The Israeli Society of Head and Neck Surgery, 1/2003, Haifa.
- Annual Meeting of the Israeli Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Eilat,, 02/2004
- The international conference on Head and Neck Cancer. Washington DC 8/04
- AFIDOC (Israeli French Combined Conference on Otolaryngology). Eilat 10/2004. Panelist
- Annual Meeting of the Israeli Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Eilat,, 02/2004
- American Combined Spring Meeting- The American Society of Head and Neck Surgery. Bocca-Raton, Florida, 05/2005.
- The Israeli Society of Head and Neck Surgery. Rabin Medical Center, 01/2006.
- Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Eilat, 03/2006
- Israeli Society of Surgery and Oncology, Zefat 2007.
