Dr. Boris Gendel

Boris Gendel studied at the Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University, graduating with excellent results. Beginning his career as an oncologist, Dr. Gendel trained at the Institute of Clinical Oncology at Chaim Sheba Medical Center. He then qualified as a radiation therapist and worked in the radiological tumor treatment department at Sheba. In 1997 he specialized in surgery of the lungs and mediastinal organs and has worked as a thoracic surgeon ever since.

Today Dr. Boris Gendel heads the Thoracic Surgery Department in the pulmonology unit of the multidisciplinary Meir Medical Center and is a scientific consultant in lung and mediastinal surgery. Dr. Gendel is a member of the Israeli Pulmonology Society and the Israeli Association of Thoracic Surgeons, where he gives interesting presentations on current issues in modern thoracic surgery that attract specialists from the country's leading clinics. He has a number of scientific papers published in local and international journals which are of great practical value because the information is based on unique clinical experience.

Surgeon Boris Gendel is competent in a wide range of modern surgical operations on the chest organs, including:

• routine and highly complex interventions on the mediastinal organs, including the heart, esophagus, trachea and large vessels;
• lung surgery, including removal of malignant tumors of lung tissue, bronchi and trachea;
• thoracic surgery after traumatic injuries;
• invasive diagnostics of chest organ diseases.

An attentive attitude to every patient, precise diagnosis and an unerringly correct choice of surgical treatment algorithm allow Dr. Gendel to achieve high treatment results regardless of the severity of the clinical diagnosis.