Speaker

I am a Professor of Anaesthesiology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Chair of the Department of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Soroka University Medical Center and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel.
I was born in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1971 and received my M.D. from the Stavropol Medical Academy in Stavropol, Russia in 1997. I immigrated to Israel in 1999, where I completed my Ph.D. at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and residency in Anaesthesiology at Soroka University Medical Center. After completing a fellowship in neuro-anaesthesia and trauma from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, I returned to Israel where I joined the faculty at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
My translational research interests are in mechanisms of neuroprotection and glutamate neurotoxicity, and I have authored more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters to date. I have received several awards in recognition of my research including the John D. Michenfelder New Investigator Award from the Society of Neuroscience in Anaesthesiology and Critical Care (SNACC).
I have mentored more than 80 scientific theses for medical students, residents, and fellows, and serve on several editorial boards and scientific committees.
Currently, I also serve as Past-Chair of the Subcommittee for Neuroanaesthesia and Trauma for the Israeli Society of Anesthesiologists (ISA) and the Scientific Subcommittee on Neuroanaesthesia for the European Society of Anesthesiologists (ESA).