Dr. Ella Weitzman
One of Israel's leading specialists in treating hepatitis and gallstone disease, an expert in combined liver diseases in the setting of immunodeficiency.
Dr. Ella Weitzman is one of the most experienced and authoritative hepatologists in Israel, a specialist in diagnosing and treating diseases of the liver and bile ducts, and in modern methods and the newest drugs for treating viral hepatitis, including the extremely dangerous hepatitis C. Among colleagues Dr. Weitzman has unquestioned authority and often acts as an expert and consultant in complex diagnostic and treatment situations.
Dr. Ella Weitzman studied medicine at the Kiev State Medical Institute. After graduating brilliantly in 1989 and completing an internship in internal medicine in 1990, she immigrated to Israel, where she successfully validated her medical diploma. From 1992 to 1994 she trained as a general practitioner at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, and from 1994 to 2000 completed her residency there in internal medicine, gastroenterology and hepatology. Having become a qualified specialist, in 2001 she went to the USA, where for two years she did postdoctoral research in the research laboratory of the liver transplantation department at the university clinic in Omaha, Nebraska. Returning to Israel as a doctor of medicine, she resumed clinical practice at Rambam Medical Center.
Dr. Ella Weitzman progressed from a staff physician in an internal medicine department to a leading specialist at the Liver Disease Center of the Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer. From 1998 to 2011 she conducted research in the laboratory of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion in Haifa: she worked on hepatocyte (liver cell) transplantation and on differentiation of human embryonic stem cells into regenerating liver tissue.
Today Ella Weitzman is an experienced practitioner and brilliant clinician who works in the hepatology department at Sheba Medical Center and consults patients of Maccabi, one of Israel's largest health funds. She pays much attention to scientific and practical work and teaches a course on liver diseases, as well as an integrative general medicine course, to students of the Sackler Faculty at Tel Aviv University. Dr. Weitzman is the author of several dozen scientific articles, a sought-after participant in international conferences and symposia, and an active member of Israeli and European professional societies.
Dr. Ella Weitzman is competent in treating the full range of liver diseases, including:
- acute and chronic hepatitis of viral and toxic (drug, chemical, etc.) origin;
- secondary hepatitis resulting from radiation sickness, immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and autoimmune diseases;
- primary malignant tumors of the liver and intrahepatic bile ducts;
- fatty liver disease and alcoholic liver damage;
- liver transplantation issues.
Her clinical arsenal includes selecting the most modern drugs and effective medical technologies to achieve the best treatment result, i.e. the greatest possible functional and organic restoration of the liver.