Dr. Yuri Goldes
Master of the most modern tumor removal techniques and high-tech methods of oncologic surgery. For the fifth year in a row Forbes, one of the world's most authoritative magazines, has placed Dr. Yuri Goldes at the top of its ranking of Israel's best surgeons.
Dr. Yuri Goldes is a physician of the highest category, a surgical oncologist in the Department of Surgery and Transplantation and a leading specialist at the Liver Disease Institute of Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv. In Israel Dr. Goldes is considered one of the best surgical oncologists, competent in the most successful primary, repeat (correcting errors of previous operations) and reconstructive operations on the esophagus, stomach, intestine, liver and its ducts, as well as pancreatic interventions of any complexity.
Dr. Goldes graduated with honors from the Astrakhan Medical Institute in 1994, choosing surgery as his specialty. After moving to Israel he completed a clinical internship at Sheba Medical Center until 1998, where he then worked for the next 10 years as a surgeon in the general and laparoscopic surgery departments. In 2005 Dr. Yuri Goldes was certified as a general surgeon.
In 2007 Dr. Goldes went to Hannover (Germany), where for two years he specialized as a surgical oncologist in the hepatobiliary pathology and gastrointestinal surgery departments of the clinic at Hannover Medical School. He then received additional specialization in robotic surgery in Strasbourg (France). After returning to Israel, Dr. Goldes resumed work at Sheba, now as an internationally-level surgical oncologist, and in 2011 became head of the gastrointestinal diseases department. In 2013 he improved his skills in hepatobiliary surgery at the transplantation and visceral surgery center of Charité Hospital in Berlin.
Today Yuri Goldes is a lecturer at Tel Aviv University and a member of the Israel Medical Association, the Association of General Surgery, and the Endoscopic Societies of Israel and Europe. With almost 20 years of successful practice, Dr. Goldes continues to improve his surgical skill, considering steady professional growth an integral part of his profession. Thanks to his brilliant surgical education, deep academic knowledge and genuine talent as a practicing surgeon, he has won the regard of colleagues and the sincere affection of patients who have passed through his golden hands.
He speaks Russian, English and German, and is fluent in Hebrew.
Dr. Yuri Goldes is a brilliant practitioner who uses the latest surgical methods and revolutionary technologies in treating oncological diseases and performs more than 100 surgical interventions annually. When removing tumors of the stomach, pancreas, liver and intestine, he masterfully uses latest-generation laparoscopes, the nano-knife and robot-assisted surgical systems. His competence includes:
- surgical treatment of diseases, including oncological ones, of the stomach, intestine and esophagus;
- surgical treatment of the liver and bile ducts (hepatobiliary surgery);
- removal of pancreatic tumors, in particular using the CyberKnife technique, indispensable for cancer of the pancreatic head with metastases to the digestive organs;
- laparoscopic adrenalectomy (removal of the adrenal glands for tumors, Cushing's disease);
- laparoscopic treatment of achalasia, esophageal diverticulum and chronic reflux.