Dr. Zvi Cohen, M.D.
Deputy chair, Department of Neurosurgery and Director of the Neurosurgical Oncology Service, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel
Specialty
Dr. Cohen specializes in neurosurgery, benign and malignant Brain tumors and pituitary adenomas
Languages
Hebrew & English
Education & Fellowships
- Sackler Medical school, Tel- Aviv University, Israel
- Residency, Department of Neurosurgery, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel
- Chief Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel
- Fellowship - in Neuroradiology, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
- Fellowship - in Neurosurgical Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
- Board Certifications - Neurosurgery
Career Accomplishments
- Deputy chair, Department of Neurosurgery and Director of the Neurosurgical Oncology Service, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel
- Founded the tumor bank for brain tumors in Sheba Medical Center Israel
- Director of a Multidisciplinary tumor board where patient care is delivered in collaboration with the department of Oncology
- Director of Clinical Research, Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Neurosurgical Oncology, Sheba Medical
- Member of the Society of Neuro-Oncology (SNO)
- Member of the Israeli Association of Neurological Surgeons (IANS)
- Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery in the Sackler Medical School in Tel-Aviv University
Research Interests & Advanced Training
- Focused on brain tumors and pituitary adenomas
- Frame and frameless stereotactic brain biopsies
- Image guided surgical removal of primary and metastatic brain tumors, which include the use of intra-operative MRI.
- Trans-sphenoidal removal of functional and non secreting pituitary adenomas
- Principal investigator of several international clinical trials (Phase 2 and 3) testing new therapies for malignant brain tumors
- Director of a research laboratory conducting in vitro and in vivo animal studies focused on brain