Dr. Eli Ashkenazi

Dr. Eli Ashkenazi is a sought-after neurologist and neurosurgeon of the highest qualification, with outstanding professional qualities and rich experience in neurosurgical interventions. As an experienced neuro-spinal surgeon, Eli Ashkenazi works actively in Israel and just as actively collaborates with foreign medical institutions, which invite the talented Israeli physician to provide consulting and practical help in difficult clinical cases and to perform highly complex spine operations.

Eli Ashkenazi is a native of Jerusalem and, after finishing school, chose that city for his medical education at the Hebrew University. He did his first specialization at Hadassah and then served for ten years as a military doctor in the Israel Defense Forces. By his own account, it was there that he went through the most significant school of spinal neurosurgery in his professional practice. After military service Eli Ashkenazi worked for six years as a trauma physician at a military medical center.

Returning to civilian medicine as an experienced specialist with brilliant professional recommendations, Dr. Ashkenazi confirmed his highest qualification as a spinal surgeon through special licensing and joined the staff of the Spine Surgery Center at Assuta Hospital.

Dr. Ashkenazi is a successful spinal surgeon, author of original methodological developments and leader of dozens of promising spine surgery projects. His articles published in top-level medical journals draw great professional interest through their non-trivial approach and the clinical prospects they open.

Today top-class spinal surgeon Eli Ashkenazi is deputy director of the Spine Surgery Center at Assuta Hospital, an internationally-level specialist engaged in clinical and teaching work, a member of the Association of Traumatologists and the Association of Neurosurgeons of Israel, the European Association of Neurosurgeons, the North American Spine Society and the Eurospine society, and frequently speaks at international professional symposia and forums.

Neuro-spinal surgeon Eli Ashkenazi is competent in all types of operations on the cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral spine, including interventions of special complexity, in particular:

• removal and restoration of vertebrae, reconstructive spinal plastic surgery;
• all types of laminoplasty (operations on the vertebral arches), laminotomy;
• treatment of herniated discs by modern minimally invasive methods, including microdiscectomy;
• transplantation of vertebrae and segments, removal of old grafts from the spinal column and placement of new reliable constructs;
• restoration of facet joints;
• removal of spinal tumors.

In his neurosurgical practice Dr. Ashkenazi applies the most modern medical technologies, including robot-assisted systems, advanced instruments for minimally invasive interventions and the latest surgical equipment with which his department in Israel is equipped.