Yoram SHAPIRA 

Yoram Shapira M.D.,Ph.D. Professor and Co- Chairman of the Israeli Scientific Council

Born in 1949 and made his military service as a soldier 1967-1971 and as a medical Doctor 1979-1980.

M.D. - Graduated in 1979 at the Hebrew university, Hadassah medical School, Jerusalem Israel.

Ph.D. – graduated in 1991 at the Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem Israel

Residency in Hadassah university Medical Center and a Faculty from 1985 until 1990 when I moved to University of Washington Seattle Washington USA for two years. In there I did a lot of research and improved my Neuroanesthesia skills with Prof. A.Lam and Prof. A.A.Artru. Went on to Beer Sheba were I kept on moving in my university titles up to full professor Anesthesiology in 2001and Chairperson of the Department/Division of Anesthesiology and critical care in 2002.

Till today I published almost 150 manuscripts and more than 200 abstracts which took place in conferences all over the world mainly in the USA. Eight chapters in books.

Since 1989 I am involved in interviewing started off course in my university in Beer Sheba and it went on to become a reviewer in leading journals of Anesthesia in the world like Anesthesia and Analgesia or Anesthesia. In 1994 I became a member at the Editorial Board Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology. Right after in 2 Israeli ones HREFUA and IMAJ.

Since 2014 Chairman of the Israeli Medical Association Scientific Council. It is a task in which you are head of the residency in Israel and responsible for all residency programs in All subjects in Israel. I do the job with Prof. Paret and we are responsible to the Accriditation committee which that is the regulator for residency in Israel.