Sheba Medical Center

The medical town covers an area of 600 thousand m2 (85 football fields) in the suburbs of Tel Aviv — Ramat Gan. Sheba Medical Center consists of 160 hospitals, the biggest of them are:

• Oncology: cancer research and treatment center, radiation oncology department, institute of immune oncology, and pancreatic cancer center;
• Institute of Heart and Blood Circulation: Arrhythmia Center, Cardiology Hospital, Cardiac Surgery Unit, and Congenital Heart Disease Treatment Center;
• Safra Children’s Hospital;
• The world’s biggest Rehabilitation Hospital;
• Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology.

1,700 people can be treated in the clinic at the same time — 2,740 nurses and 1,425 doctors are assigned to them. Thus, each patient is given full attention.
Sheba center, named after Chaim Sheba, has the largest medical university and the main research institute in Israel. The annual budget of the hospital is more than $500 million — it helps to develop new medicines and regularly update medical equipment.

Sheba Hospital and MD Anderson Cancer Center (America’s best cancer clinic in 2020 — U.S. News) has been officially working together since 2011. They exchange protocols and the latest developments of cancer treatment, giving the patients access to the most advanced cancer immune and gene therapy drugs, as well as alternative non-surgical methods for removing tumors: gamma knife, cyberknife, nano knife, ultrasonic scalpel, cryo-radio, and chemo-ablation, medical laser. This is one of the few places in the world where cancer is treated with its own genetically modified immune cells — CAR-T therapy.

Dr. Raanan Berger is Director of the Institute of Oncology at the Sheba Medical Center: as an oncologist and radiotherapist he is practicing for more than 20 years. He graduated from the medical faculty of Tel Aviv University, then did a doctorate at the Harvard University Cancer Institute. Dr. Berger also is a member of the European and American Society of Clinical Oncology (ESMO and ASCO).

• Dr. Ronnie Shapira-Frommer — physician and gynecological malignancies expert
• Dr. Raanan Berger — onco-urologist and prostate cancer expert
• Dr. Iris Gluck — radiation oncology expert
• Dr. Einat Shaham-Shmueli — gastrointestinal tumors expert
• Prof. Bella Kaufman — a leading breast cancer researcher and the deputy chief of the Cancer Treatment Center
• Zvi Symon — radiotherapy and brachytherapy expert
• Dr. Amir Onn — pulmonologist and lung cancer expert
• Dr. Yair Bar — thoracic oncologist and molecular biology, cytology and genetics of cancerous tumors expert

The cancer treatment center is divided into specialized departments in the treatment of cancer of certain organs, so doctors are well versed in choosing the best treatment tactics for each type of cancer.

• lung cancer
• breast cancer
• prostate cancer
• stomach cancer
• brain cancer
• melanoma
• thyroid cancer
• cervical cancer
• all kinds of sarcomas
• lymphomas and leukemia
• pediatric oncology and neuroblastomas

The treatment of cardiovascular diseases is one of the main directions of modern medicine, therefore Sheba opened a separate heart center named after Olga and Lev Leviev.
It includes 2 research institutes and 13 medical units. In hybrid operating rooms (diagnostic CT, MRI, and PET-CT equipment located inside the operating room), surgeries are performed without cardiac arrest and chest incisions.

7 doctors of Sheba clinic are ranked to be the best cardiothoracic surgeons in Israel:

• Prof. Jacob Lavee — cardiac surgeon and President of the Israel Society of Transplantation
• Dr. David Mishali — director of the department of pediatric and congenital cardiothoracic surgery
• Prof. Alain Serraf — chairman of the Edmond J. Safra International Congenital Heart Center in Sheba
• Dr. Boris Orlov — head of the heart valve reconstruction center
• Dr. Leonid Sternik — cardiac and chest surgeon and age-related heart diseases expert
• Prof. Ehud Raanani — an expert in aortic surgery
• Prof. Alon Ben-Nun — head of the thoracic surgery department, expert in combined surgeries on the lungs, esophagus, and heart

Sheba Medical Center has one of the largest centers of neurosurgery in the world, which consists of 8 divisions:

• Benign Tumor Neurosurgery
• Department of Neurosurgery for Pituitary Tumors
• Neuro-oncology
• Department of Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery
• Pediatric Neurosurgery and Epilepsy Surgery
• Spinal neurosurgery
• Department of Stereotactic, Functional and Radiosurgery of the Brain
  Department of Neurosurgical Rehabilitation

Operating rooms are equipped with high-definition electron microscopes, virtual neuronavigation, endoscopes, and equipment for functional neurosurgery. The latest model Cyber-Knife M6 is installed here, and for the operation on deep brain stimulation, the latest stimulants are used: Medtronic, Abbott, and Boston. This equipment helps to perform surgery even in vital areas of the brain without the risk of complications and infections.

4 doctors of Sheba Medical Center are ranked to be the best neurosurgeons in Israel:

• Dr. Zvi Cohen — leading neurosurgeon, director of the Oncological Neurosurgery Unit. He specializes in neurosurgery, benign and malignant brain tumors, and pituitary adenomas.
• Dr. Nahshon Knoller — director of the Spine Surgery Unit
• Dr. Mati Bakon — head of the neuro-interventional service, aneurysms and other vascular pathologies expert
• Dr. Roberto Spiegelmann — head of the Stereotactic Radiosurgery Unit, an expert in surgery for Parkinson’s disease, torsion dystonia, epilepsy, and inoperable tumors.

Rehabilitation Hospital of Sheba Medical Center is one of the largest in the world and famous for its specialized institutes and departments:

• Spinal Cord Injury Institute
• Department of Neurological Rehabilitation and Rehabilitation of Traumatic Brain Injuries
• Department of Orthopedic Rehabilitation and Institute of Walking
• Virtual Reality (VR) Training Facility and Speech Therapy Institute
• Center for breathing and nutrition rehabilitation

They work together to restore the lost physical and mental functions of patients. Therefore, 6,200 patients annually choose rehabilitation at the Sheba Medical Center.

Chaim Sheba Tel HaShomer Hospital is 20 km from Ben Gurion Airport (Tel Aviv Main Airport). A car ride takes about 20 minutes. There are 2 hotels in the clinic, the average cost of a double room with breakfast is $120 per day.