Dr. Moshe Halak

Specialist Qualification in Vascular Surgery

REGISTRATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:  

• Israel Medical Board License No. 27380 (February 1993)
• Israel General Surgery specialty license No. 17373 (December, 1999) Specialist (Consultant status) in General Surgery
• Israel Vascular Surgery specialty license No. 19292 (February, 2002) Specialist (Consultant status) in Vascular Surgery
• Medical Board of Western Australia Certificate of Conditional Registration No. P15443  (July 2002 – June 2003)  
• Medical Board of Western Australia Certificate of Conditional Registration No. P16338 (July 2003 – July 2004)  
• Medical Board of Western Australia Certificate of Conditional Registration-Foreign Specialist Qualification – Further Training No. P7-17163 (July 2004 – July 2005)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

• Member, Israeli Medical Association (Since 1992).
• Member, Israeli Society of Vascular Surgery

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS:
1985 –1989          B.Med.Sc. (With Honours)          The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
                             Bachelor of Science               Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
                             in Medical Science

1985 –1992         M.D.  (With Honours)                   The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
                            Doctor of Medicine                           Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel

1997    U.S.A. Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduate (ECFMG):
  Foreign Medical Graduate Examination in the Medical Sciences                      
  (FMGEMS); Basic Science; Clinical Science; English Examination
  (Certificate No. 0-477-102-8).


1993 –1999         Specialist Qualification in               Israeli Board of General Surgery
                             General Surgery

1999 – 2002       Specialist Qualification in               Israeli Board of Vascular Surgery
                             Vascular Surgery

CURRENT APPOINTMENT: 
    Since November 2006             Acting and Deputy Head of Department Vascular     Surgery
                                                                Head of endovascular service
                                                                Department of Vascular Surgery             
           The Chaim Sheba Medical Center (Tel-Hashomer)
                       Affiliated to the Sackler School of Medicine
                       The Tel-Aviv University  –
                        Tel-Hashomer, Israel.

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS:
Since November 1999    Specialist (Consultant) - General Surgery
Since November 2001                        Specialist (Consultant) – Vascular Surgery
Since February 2002    Deputy Head of Department of Vascular Surgery           Carmel Medical Center
                       Affiliated to the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine
                       The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology –
                        Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel.

Since August 2002                            Senior Registrar - Department of Vascular Surgery
                                                           Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, WA

Since August 2003                            Senior Medical Officer
                                                           (Locum Consultant - supervised)
                                                           Department of Vascular Surgery
                                                           Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital    
                                                        The Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre
                                                           Affiliated to the Western Australia School of Medicine
                                                           Western Australia University, Perth, WA

Since September 2005                         Senior Consultant - Department of Vascular Surgery         Carmel Medical Center
                       Affiliated to the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine
                       The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology –
                        Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel.
 
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING:
1992-1993    Rotating Internship,  
                                                            Rambam Medical Center
    The Technion Medical School, Haifa, Israel


1993-1999                                   Basic and Advanced Specialist Training in General Surgery
       Carmel Medical Center
       Haifa, Israel

1999-2002                                     Advanced Specialist Training in Vascular Surgery
      Carmel Medical Center
      Haifa, Israel


FELLOWSHIP :
August 2002 – August 2003    Senior Registrar – Department of Vascular Surgery

                                                The Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre
                                                Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital    
                                                Affiliated to the Western Australia School of Medicine
                                                Western Australia University, Perth, WA

August 2003 – July 2005        Senior Medical Officer
                                                           (Locum Consultant - supervised)
                                                           Department of Vascular Surgery
                                                           Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital    
                                                        The Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre
                                                           Affiliated to the Western Australia School of Medicine
                                                           Western Australia University, Perth, WA

COURSES:
2006     Advanced Evar Training. Dr. Van Der Berg – Lugano Switzerland

2005    Minimally Invasive (/Laparoscopic) Vascular Workshop. Conducted by: S Fearn, M Lawrence-Brown, D Hartley, YM Dion. Organized by the Australian & New Zealand Society of Vascular Surgery.

2005               Non Radiologist Fluoroscopy Radiation Safety Course. Conducted by       Department  of  Medical Physics and Technology. The Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Western Australia

2003    Inaugural Perth Zenith Fenestration workshop for the Endovascular treatment of
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm. Cook / Zenith, Perth, Western Australia.

2002    Endovascular treatment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm – Perth Training Course. (Covering issues of Patient Selection, Imaging and Interpretation, Device Planning, and Deployment) – (Cook/Zenith), Perth, Western Australia

2002    Workshop in Stent Grafting of the Thorcic Aorta – (Medtronic AVE), Sydney, NSW, Australia

1998    Laparoscopic Surgery - Laparoscopic Viscral Week (Including Colon, Hernia and Gastric Surgery). J&J European Surgical Institute, Hamburg, Germany

1997    Microsurgery Basic Course. Tel Aviv University / Sackler Faculty of Medicine, School of Continuing Medical Education

1996    Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) Provider Course

1993    Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) Provider Course

1993    Israel Defense Force – School of Military Medicine. Medical Officers Course


CERTIFICATION :
    United State of America Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduate (ECFMG): Foreign Medical Graduate Examination in the Medical Sciences (FMGEMS); Certificate No. 0-477-102-8, (Basic Science; Clinical Science; English Examination) (September, 1997)

Israeli Board of Surgery - Written (Part I) Examination,
(May, 1997)

Israeli Board of General Surgery - Written (Part II) Examination,
(May, 1997)

Israeli Board of General Surgery - Oral (Final) Examination,
(March, 1999)

Israeli Board of Vascular Surgery - Written (Part I) Examination,
(November, 2001)

Israeli Board of Vascular Surgery - Oral (PartII/Final) Examination, (November, 2001)

                                               Medical Board of Western Australia – Conditional Registration
                                                (July 2002 – July 2005)

AWARDS AND CITATION:
1989    Bachelor of Science in Medical Science
    given with Honours - cum laude

1995    Doctor of Medicine
    given with Honours - cum laude

1993    Israeli army Medical Officer course
    given with Honours - cum laude

2001    Israeli Board of Vascular Surgery – Oral (Viva)      Examination, (Part II / Final) given with Honours - cum laude.

2005    20th Annual congress of the Crardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe – Nice, France. Certificate of merit for best poster presentation: Fenestrated Stent Grafting of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: Lessons Learnt.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
•    Teaching of nurses, medical students at different stages of their clinical training, interns and residents. Teaching of registrars and residents in general and vascular surgery in their basic and advanced specialist training –  Australia and Israel (1993 – 2009).

•    Supervision of Medical Doctors with their M.D final thesis.

•    Supervision of advanced specialist surgical training registrars during their six months period of Basic Science Research –  Obligatory requirement of The Israeli Medical Association Scientific Council