Prof. Petachia Reissman

Director of the Department of Surgery | Co-director of the gastro-surgical center

Expertise: Surgery
Sub Expertise: Laparoscopy, Surgery of the liver, bile ducts and pancreas, Adrenal gland surgeries, Oncological surgery, Gastrointestinal (GI) surgery, Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD)

Professional Experience

Internship, Hadassah Medical Center
1981-1982 - Doctor, Medical Corps, IDF
1982-1984 - Diver doctor, Navy, IDF
1985-1988 - Resident , general surgery, Hadassah Medical Center
1988 - Diver Doctor, US Navy, Panama City, Florida
1988-1989 - Director of the Hyperbaric Underwater Medicine Unit, Institute of Marine Medicine, Haifa
1989-1990 - Senior Resident, General Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
1990-1992 - Chief Resident, General Surgery, Hadassah Medical Center
1992-1993 - Senior Doctor, General Surgery, Hadassah Medical Center
1993-1994 - Research Fellowship, Department of Colon Surgery, Florida Branch of the Cleveland Clinic
1994-1995 - Clinical Fellowship, Department of Colon Surgery, Florida branch of the Cleveland Clinic
1995-2002 - Senior Doctor, General Surgery, Hadassah Medical Center
1997-1998 - Director of Surgical Hospitalization Section B, Hadassah Medical Center
2002 onwards - Director of the Department of Surgery, Shaare Zedek Medical Center

1988 - Instructor in Surgery, Hadassah School of Medicine and the Hebrew University
1992 - Lecturer in Surgery, Hadassah School of Medicine and the Hebrew University
1996 - Senior Lecturer in Surgery, Hadassah School of Medicine and the Hebrew University
2001 - Associate Professor of Surgery, Hadassah School of Medicine and the Hebrew University
2019-Professor of the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University

1985 - The Israel Medical Association
1992 - Israeli Society of Surgery
1994 - American Society for Colorectal Surgery
1994 - American Society for Endoscopic Surgery of the Gastrointestinal System
1994 - American College of Gastroenterology
1994 - American College of Surgeons
1995 - Florida Gastrointestinal Society
1996 - The Israeli Society for Colon and Rectal Surgery
1999 - The International Society for University Surgeons of the Colon and Rectum
2002 - Fellow of the American College of Surgeons

Peer review in journals:
Southern Medical Journal.
The Cancer Journal

Editing in journals:
Journal of Techniques in Coloproctology

Textbooks:
Reoperative Abdominal Surgery
along with Dr. Soly Mizrahi and Dr. Hiram Polk

1976 - Dean's Award, Hadassah School of Medicine and the Hebrew University
1985 - Faculty Award for Outstanding Thesis, Hadassah School of Medicine and the Hebrew University
1994 - International Research Award, Research Foundation of the American Society for Colorectal Surgery
1995 - Gold Medal for Presentation, 63rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Surgical Congress, New Orleans, Louisiana
1995 - Ross Fellowship Research Award, Annual Meeting of the Society for Digestive System Surgery, San Diego, CA
1995 - Dean's Award for Research, US Medical Surgeons Research Fund in Israel