Dr. Felix Bokstein

Dr. Felix Bokstein is a neuro-oncologist with enormous clinical experience, possessing remarkably fine medical intuition combined with deep professional knowledge. A top-class specialist, he is in demand in Israel and abroad, and the differential diagnostic algorithms he has proposed for oncological, neurological and neuro-oncological diseases allow diagnoses of any complexity to be verified with unprecedented accuracy.

Felix Bokstein received his medical degree in internal medicine at the Moscow Medical Institute in 1980. He then completed an internship in the neurology departments of Moscow clinics, studying oncological diseases of the nervous system in parallel. After immigrating to Israel in 1991, he received basic specialization as a neurologist at Tel Aviv University and completed a two-year clinical residency at Sourasky Medical Center, where he worked first as a neurologist and neuro-oncologist and then as head of the neuro-oncology unit of the outpatient clinic. Dr. Bokstein also specialized in neuro-oncology at the famous Hadassah clinic in Jerusalem, where he worked for five years.

Today Dr. Felix Bokstein heads the neuro-oncology service of the Tel Aviv Medical Center and teaches neurology and neuro-oncology to students of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. He has an extensive clinical practice and is actively engaged in research and in introducing into neurology clinics the most effective methods of diagnosing and treating neurological diseases associated with cancer. He takes part in international clinical studies in radiation oncology conducted by the RTOG in the USA and the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC). The method of differential neurological diagnosis he proposed is used in specialized clinics around the world.

Dr. Bokstein is the most authoritative consultant on complications and secondary neurological dysfunction in cancer patients of any localization. His direct participation in patient care makes it possible to quickly detect a neuro-oncological problem and ensure its most effective resolution.

For his work, Dr. Bokstein has repeatedly received awards:

• Outstanding Employee Award, Tel Aviv Medical Center, 2006
• Outstanding Teacher Award, Tel Aviv University, 2009
• Outstanding Employee Award, Tel Aviv Medical Center, 2012

Dr. Felix Bokstein holds one of the leading positions in the ranking of Israeli specialists in treating post-stroke conditions, Parkinson's disease and all forms of epilepsy. He provides treatment and rehabilitation for:

• tumors of the central (brain) and peripheral nervous system of various etiologies;
• neurological complications in cancer patients of all types:
• cerebral metastases, metastases to the skull and spine, peripheral nerve damage;
• secondary impairment of motor function, speech and attention after trauma and diseases of the central nervous system;
• neuropathies after chemotherapy and radiation;
• other neurological disorders of the brain, extrapyramidal diseases, dementia, etc.

Over the last 10 years Dr. Bokstein has focused on the diagnosis and treatment of neurofibromatosis and other hereditary diseases of the nervous system and skin, phakomatoses. He heads the Hamburger Neurofibromatosis Clinic at the Gilbert Center, opened at the Tel Aviv Medical Center in 2008, where the following diseases are diagnosed, studied and treated:

• tuberous sclerosis;
• ataxia-telangiectasia;
• Sturge-Weber syndrome;
• von Hippel-Lindau disease.