Dr. Amir Szold
One of the most successful and sought-after endoscopic surgeons in Israel, a specialist with brilliant surgical talent and rich practical clinical experience.
Dr. Amir Szold is one of the most successful and sought-after endoscopic surgeons in Israel, a specialist with brilliant surgical talent and rich practical clinical experience. Masterful in the most advanced methods of endoscopic surgery, Dr. Szold performs highly complex organ-preserving operations, consistently achieving excellent results.
Dr. Amir Szold received his medical education at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. After receiving his medical diploma and specialization in surgery, he entered an internship and worked as a trainee physician at Hadassah University Hospital, the main clinical base of the Hebrew University's Faculty of Medicine. A two-year fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York followed, where Dr. Szold went through a unique school of laparoscopic and endoscopic surgery. Having experienced the promise of this surgical direction in practice, on returning home he began actively introducing advanced endoscopic technologies into Israeli surgical practice and soon founded Israel's first center for endoscopic operations at the Sourasky clinical complex (Ichilov Hospital).
Today Dr. Amir Szold is one of the most popular specialists in performing endoscopic interventions of all complexity categories. In his practice he confidently uses both modern manual endoscopic techniques and robotic surgical systems such as the Da Vinci Surgical System. As a top-class specialist, he is included in the expert group of Assia Medical surgeons formed at the private Israeli Assuta clinic, heads the Israeli Society of Endoscopic Surgery and is one of its founders, and belongs to several of the largest endoscopic societies of Europe and the USA. With an unusually tight work schedule, Dr. Szold conducts active research on the possibilities of endoscopic surgery in treating a wide range of diseases, works on creating 3D visualization systems in surgery, teaches medical students in Israel, lectures, holds specialized seminars and master classes for foreign colleagues, and is the author of several dozen scientific publications on modern approaches to surgical treatment of diseases of the abdominal cavity and retroperitoneal space.
Dr. Amir Szold is competent in a very wide range of surgical manipulations, including:
- operations for hernias: external, internal, complicated, including strangulated, recurrent, etc.;
- splenectomy using advanced endoscopic techniques, gallbladder resection, surgical treatment of gallstone disease;
- modern surgical operations on the stomach, intestine and liver;
- bariatric operations for obesity, etc.
In his practice Dr. Szold uses the newest endoscopic instruments and robotic technology, whose talented mastery allows the brilliant surgeon to obtain unprecedentedly high treatment results in the most complex surgical pathology.