Dr. Eli Tavdi

This combination has given Dr. Eli Tavdi the reputation of a brilliant uro-oncologist able to solve clinical problems of any complexity. Dr. Tavdi is among the Israeli uro-oncologists who master the innovative non-surgical method of treating prostate cancer using HIFU technology, which destroys tumor cells with high-power ultrasound waves.

Eli Tavdi received his higher medical education and medical diploma in Georgia, graduating in 1990 from the medical institute in Tbilisi. For the next five years the young specialist worked as a urologist in one of the city clinics, and after immigrating to Israel and brilliantly validating his diploma and high medical qualification, Dr. Tavdi continued to improve in urology, surgery, oncologic surgery and uro-oncology at Chaim Sheba Medical Center and Wolfson Clinical Hospital, where he currently serves as head of the urological oncology department.

Today Dr. Eli Tavdi has more than 20 years of uro-oncology practice behind him, 15 of which he has lived and worked in Israel. All this time he has continued to improve in his profession and conducts scientific and clinical research into new methods of treating cancer of the prostate, bladder and other pelvic organs. He is one of the few Israeli specialists who first mastered and apply in clinical practice the revolutionary method of treating malignant prostate tumors using a high-power ultrasound beam. He has dozens of scientific papers exploring new possibilities of modern surgical uro-oncology, published in medical journals around the world. Dr. Tavdi teaches at a university medical faculty, lectures at an Israeli nursing college, and belongs to specialized Israeli organizations including the Israeli societies of endourology and ambulatory urology, the Israeli Urological Association and the Israeli Society for Sexual Dysfunction.

Dr. Eli Tavdi is competent in the most modern and advanced methods of diagnosing and treating uro-oncological and urological pathology, in particular:

• treatment of prostate cancer (tumor ablation) by the innovative HIFU method without surgery;
• treatment of kidney stone disease by percutaneous lithotripsy followed by lithotomy;
• laser lithotripsy under ultrasound guidance using modern urological endoscopes;
• endoscopic lithotomy;
• ureteral stenting during cystoscopy;
• transurethral and endoscopic resection of the prostate, etc.

All of Dr. Tavdi's patients undergo careful urological diagnostics, after which he chooses the optimal treatment method capable of leading to the best possible result in each specific case.