Prof. Shimon Bar Meir

Head of the Institute of gastrointestinal and liver diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer. Head of Gastroenterology Department.

Expertise:

♦ All areas of endoscopy of the gastrointestinal tract.
♦ Sphincterotomy, removal of gallbladder stones, enteroscopy of the small intestine.

♦ Founder of some types of gastrointestinal endoscopy in Israel.
♦ Endosonographic research.

♦ Colonoscopy ERCP (retrograde cholangiopancreatography) and Stretta (minimally invasive endoscopic method with esophageal reflux).

♦ All clinical areas of gastroenterology and liver diseases, with special emphasis in advanced endoscopy, treatment of cholelithiasis, pancreatic diseases and inflammatory bowel diseases.

Education:

School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.

Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Specialization in Gastroenterology, Medical College, Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA.
Practice in liver disease, Yale University.

Visiting Professor, University of Zurich Hospital.

Work in the field of diseases of the large intestine – the hospital in St. Marx London, Royal Hospital, London, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York and the Women’s Hospital, Boston.
Practice in Internal Medicine, Clinic Beilinson, Petah-Tikva, Israel.

Professional communities:

Head of the Institute of gastrointestinal tract and liver diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer.
Chairman of the Liver Society Study
Chairman of the Israeli Gastroenterologists Association.
Chairman of the gastroenterology examination committee.
Deputy Dean of the Medicine Faculty, Tel Aviv University.

Member of the Education Committee of Training in gastroenterology.
Responsible for the Gastroenterology Department, School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
Member of the gastrointestinal endoscopy organization.

Member of the international gastroenterology society.

Publications:

200 publications in scientific journals.
30 chapters in the scientific literature.