Dr. Ronnie Shapira

Dr. Ronnie Shapira is an expert-level specialist in treating melanoma and skin cancer, one of Israel's best oncodermatologists, a physician with highly developed professional intuition and an understanding of her work as a high mission of saving human life.

Dr. Shapira's medical arsenal includes the most progressive methods of treating skin cancer, the ability to select the optimal anticancer drugs for each patient and to develop the most effective antitumor programs for successfully fighting skin cancer.

Dr. Ronnie Shapira received her medical education and diploma at the Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University. Already during her internship she determined the direction of her medical career, and after general training as an internist at Meir Hospital she began a fellowship in oncology at Sheba, choosing oncological dermatology as her specialization. Alongside extensive clinical practice, Dr. Shapira conducts active research, is the author of scientific articles and a number of original developments, and belongs to associations of oncologists in Israel and abroad.

Today oncodermatologist Ronnie Shapira is a recognized authority in treating melanoma and other types of skin cancer, with thousands of saved lives and dozens of scientific developments aimed at finding new means for effective treatment of skin cancer behind her. The Ella Melanoma Center, where Dr. Shapira holds a leading position, is famous for the most progressive and effective methods of treating melanoma and skin cancer, to whose development she contributed greatly. The Ella Melanoma Institute is one of two centers in the world that use not only traditional but also experimental drugs and non-drug methods that give the best results in treating melanoma and skin cancer. The second such center is the US National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Ronnie Shapira is one of Israel's leading oncologists, whose competence in conservative treatment of skin cancer and melanoma of other localizations is very high and allows her to act as an expert in her field. Her arsenal includes:

• treatment of melanoma and skin cancer using the most modern technologies and methods based on the latest achievements of world medical science and practice;
• development of personal antitumor treatment programs that include, along with anticancer agents, biological drugs that increase the effectiveness of traditional anticancer therapy and reduce side effects;
• diagnosis and verification of the diagnosis when skin cancer is suspected.