Speaker

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 from 1967-1971 and as a Medical Doctor from 1979-1980.
Major the Israeli defence forces.
M.D. – Graduated in 1979 at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
Ph.D. – graduated in 1991 from the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
Residency at The Hebrew University – Hadassah Medical School and a Faculty from 1985 until 1990 when I moved to the University of Washington, Seattle Washington USA for two years. There I did a lot of research and improved my Neuroanaesthesia skills with Prof. A. Lam and Prof. A. A. Artru. Went on to Beer Sheba where I kept on moving in my university titles up to full Professor of Anesthesiology in 2001 and Chairperson of the Department / Division of Anaesthesiology 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 Anaesthesia in the world like Anaesthesia and Analgesia or Anaesthesia. In 1994 I became a member at the Editorial Board Journal of Neurosurgical Anaesthesiology. Right after in 2 Israeli ones HREFUA and IMAJ.
Between 2014 and 2018, served as the 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.