alexander zlotnik

Alexander Zlotnik is a Professor of Anesthesiology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Soroka University Medical Center and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel.

He was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1971 and received his M.D. from the Stavropol Medical Academy in Stavropol, Russia in 1997. He immigrated to Israel in 1999, where he completed his PhD at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and residency in Anesthesiology at Soroka University Medical Center. After completing a fellowship in neuroanesthesia and trauma from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, he returned to Israel where he joined the faculty at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

His translational research interests are in mechanisms of neuroprotection and glutamate neurotoxicity, and he has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters to date. He has received several awards in recognition of his research, including the John D. Michenfelder New Investigator Award from the Society of Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care (SNACC).

He has mentored more than 80 scientific thesis for medical students, residents, and fellows, and serve on several editorial boards and scientific committees. Currently he also serve as Past Chair of the subcommittee for neuroanesthesia and trauma for the Israeli Society of Anesthesiologists (ISA) and the scientific subcommittee on neuroanesthesia for the European Society of Anesthesiologists (ESA).