Dr. Rafael Hirsch

Head of the Department of Congenital Heart Defects in Adults, Beilinson hospital (Rabin Medical Center), Israel

Dr. Hirsch is in the list of the best doctors of 2022 by Forbes.

Specialty:

♦ Congenital heart defects in adults
♦ Echocardiography
♦ Diagnostic coronarography (catheterization)
♦ Therapeutic coronary angiography of the heart vessels
♦ Pulmonary hypertension
♦ Heart valve disease and hemodynamics

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

Hebrew University (1982)
Practice in the field of cardiology, Chaim Sheba Mrdical Center, Tel Hashomer (1986-1991)
Specialty – Congenital Heart Diseases – Royal Brompton Hospital, London (1991-1993)

RESEARCH ACTIVITY:

Eisenmenger syndrome, pregnancy and congenital heart defects, studies in the field of cardiac catheterization
Member of the Israeli Heart Study Society
European Community for the Study of the Heart, Working Group on Congenital Heart Diseases in Adults.