Dr. Michael Peer

Michael Peer is one of the best surgeons specializing in resection of cancerous tumors. The doctor took part in developing innovative surgical methods and conducted comparative studies of various methods of thoracic surgery.

• Graduate of the State Medical University in Tbilisi
• Clinical training in minimally invasive chest surgery, including video-assisted operations, at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, USA.
• Continued training at Charité Hospital in Berlin, Germany, and further training in France in robotic mediastinal surgery.

• 1999–2010 Thoracic Surgery Department, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center;
• 2010–2012 Wolfson Medical Center: head of the Thoracic Surgery Department;
• 2012–2019 Assaf Harofeh Medical Center: head of the Thoracic Surgery Department.
• 2019 – Ichilov state hospital, head of the Thoracic Surgery Department.

Memberships

• European and Israeli Societies of Endoscopic Surgery;
• Israeli Society of General Thoracic Surgery;
• International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS).

Dr. Peer also conducts active research, is the author of numerous publications in medical journals and an organizer of scientific conferences on lung surgery.

• chest surgery (congenital and acquired anomalies);
• removal of lung cancer tumors;
• removal of mediastinal tumors;
• robotic chest operations;
• surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis;
• removal and reconstruction of the chest wall;
• minimally invasive lung resection;
• esophageal resection.