Prof. Moshe Pappa

Prof. Pappa completed his medical studies at Tel Aviv medical school magna cum laude in 1976.
He underwent surgical training in 1983 at the Mount Sinai hospital in NY, and then spent 2 years as a surgical staff fellow at the National Cancer Institute NIH researching (immunotherapy) and doing clinical work under the guidance of Dr. Steve Rosenberg. He later continued his training in surgery as well as colorectal surgery at the University of Toronto and in 1990 and became part of the staff at the Sinai Hospital and worked with Dr. Hartley Stern.

In 2000 he was appointed as the head of the Surgical Oncology and Breast Service at Sheba and in 2002 became the head of the department of Surgery and the Laboratory for Genetic Applications in Surgery.
Since 1998 he has been an associate professor of surgery at the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University.

His major clinical as well as basic research interests involve: Application of a new non invasive surgical modality – the focused ultrasound in Surgical Oncology, Neo-Adjuvant Chemotherapy, Genetics of Breast and Colon Cancer, the impact of the BRCA tumor suppressor gene on the cell cycle check points and susceptibility to Radiation and Chemotherapy and Epidemiologic aspects of Breast Cancer.
He is involved in public education for cancer screening in the communities around the hospital and in establishing a breast center at Sheba.