Dr. Galina Shenkerman
One of Israel's most experienced specialists, an expert in treating diabetes, obesity, thyroid diseases and neuroendocrine pathology.
Dr. Galina Shenkerman is an endocrinologist with extensive experience diagnosing and treating a wide variety of endocrine pathology. Dr. Shenkerman applies the most progressive methods of diagnosing and treating endocrine system diseases. Any diagnostic or treatment problem in endocrinology is solved with consistent success when Dr. Shenkerman takes it on. A top-class specialist, she is known not only in Israel but far beyond. Besides her main clinical work, Galina Shenkerman takes an active part in research. She regularly presents at international and Israeli congresses and shares her rich experience with colleagues from different countries.
Dr. Shenkerman studied in Ukraine, where she graduated with honors from the Zaporozhye State Medical Institute. After receiving her general practitioner diploma, she immigrated to Israel, where she brilliantly validated her diploma as an internal medicine specialist and then entered a clinical residency at the Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University. She later specialized in clinical endocrinology and trained in general medicine at Meir Medical Center (Kfar Saba). Dr. Shenkerman developed as an endocrinologist at Rivka Ziv state hospital, where she worked in the internal medicine department, and then at Ichilov, Israel's largest medical center (Sourasky multidisciplinary clinic), as an endocrinologist.
Dr. Shenkerman is an outstanding endocrinologist whose word is decisive in disputed clinical situations. Today Dr. Galina Shenkerman holds the responsible post of head of the endocrinology department at a diabetes and obesity treatment center, and also consults endocrinology patients at the Maccabi health insurance fund. She is active in the Israeli National Fund for Combating Diabetes and Excess Weight, a member of the Israeli Endocrinologists Association, conducts research on new effective methods for hereditary endocrine diseases, publishes in international medical periodicals, and is a co-author of seven scientific books on endocrinology.
Dr. Galina Shenkerman's areas of interest include diagnosing and treating the following diseases:
- Diabetes mellitus
- Thyroid diseases
- Treatment of benign and malignant tumors of the thyroid region
- Disorders of the endocrine glands
- Obesity and metabolic disorders
- Myxedema
- Acromegaly
Dr. Shenkerman is a master of the latest clinical methods of diagnosing and treating endocrine pathology, with the ability to find the simplest and most effective way to solve the most complex clinical task.