Dr. Marina Boxer
A brilliant neurologist, one of Israel's best epileptologists, an outstanding Israeli specialist in neuropsychiatry, an expert in treating epilepsy, with many years of experience working with neurological and neuropsychiatric patients.
Today Marina Boxer conducts active clinical and scientific work and heads the neurology department of Israel's largest state medical center, Chaim Sheba. With an individual approach to every patient, Dr. Boxer cares not only about eliminating the symptoms of the disease but also about preserving the personality as a whole, and so uses every opportunity to restore both a harmonious personal status and a full professional life for a person with a diagnosis of epilepsy.
Dr. Marina Boxer's background includes an Israeli academic medical university and specializations in neurology, neuropsychiatry and neuropathology. Delving into each field with consistent thoroughness, Marina Boxer decided on her main professional interest, epileptology, early in her medical career. In this field Dr. Boxer has reached the highest professionalism and continues to grow, adding to her theoretical knowledge and perfecting her practical experience.
Dr. Marina Boxer is an incredibly sought-after physician; patients come for consultation and treatment from Europe, Asia, America and the CIS. As an experienced and talented epileptologist, Marina Boxer has her own non-trivial approach to many questions of treating convulsive and non-convulsive, partial epilepsy, and is an active participant in many revolutionary clinical developments in this field.
Dr. Boxer pays particular attention to the latest scientific developments in radical treatment of drug-resistant forms of epilepsy. Her presentations on innovative methods of treating epileptic disorders in adults and children, in particular VNS therapy, have had enormous resonance in scientific and practical societies of epileptologists around the world, including in Russia.
Marina Boxer's main professional direction is finding and introducing into clinical practice new methods of treating all forms of epileptic disease in adults and children. With a bright gift as a diagnostician and undisputed talent as a therapist, Dr. Boxer achieves brilliant results in treating epilepsy, paying particular attention to eliminating its cause.
As a leading specialist at the Sheba university clinic, Dr. Boxer developed a list of indications for VNS therapy, following which drug-resistant epilepsy is successfully treated in Israel by pulse stimulation of the vagus nerve. VNS therapy of epilepsy performed by Dr. Boxer leads to complete disappearance of seizures in 90% of patients and is today the most effective and safe way to rid patients of epileptic seizures.