Adrian Grunfeld

Dr. Adrian Grunfeld – Deputy Medical Director Pain Clinic, specialist in Anaesthesia and specialist in Pain Treatment, in charge of Acute Pain Service in the Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, Israel.

He was born in Romania. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at “Iuliu Hațieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 1979 and became a specialist in Anaesthesia - Intensive Care in 1984. In Romania, during his internship, he also learned about chronic and acute pain treatment. He emigrated to Israel in 1987.

In 1989 he developed (together with two other colleagues) the Acute Pain Service. In 1998 he started developing the invasive treatment of pain under open MRI (he is one of the first to carry out this procedure in the world). Since 2006 he became an expert in ultrasound in regional anaesthesia, in the operating room, and in invasive pain treatment for acute and chronic pain.