Dr. Yuri Peysakhovich

In 2022, together with his colleague Dr. Israel Kuznitz, head of the minimally invasive surgery service, he was among the first in the world to perform two complex thoracic operations using the innovative single-port robotic thoracic surgery method, RATS.

After moving to Israel, Dr. Peysakhovich worked in the cardiothoracic surgery department of Carmel Medical Center (Haifa) and then completed his residency there as a cardiothoracic surgeon (until 2012). He has worked at Beilinson Hospital since 2014, after completing a two-year fellowship in Canada.

Fellowships and courses:

• 2012–2014 – clinical fellowship in general thoracic surgery at St. Joseph's Healthcare in Hamilton (Ontario, Canada).
• 2013 – lung transplant program at Toronto General Hospital (Canada).
• 2013 – course in invasive thoracic surgery in Toronto (Canada).
• 2013 – course in chest resection and reconstruction, STS University, Los Angeles (USA).
• 2012 – rigid bronchoscopy course in Toronto (Canada).
• 2012 – endobronchial ultrasound course in Toronto (Canada).
• 2011 – course in video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) in Elancourt (France).
• 2010 – course in Ethics in Clinical Research and Good Clinical Practice.
• 2009 – advanced course in heart valve repair, Herz- und Gefäß-Klinik, Bad Neustadt (Germany).
• 2008 – ECMO course (Israel).
• 2006 – course in endoscopic surgery of the great saphenous vein and radial artery at Lenox Hill Hospital, New York (USA).

• thoracic (pulmonary) surgery,
• chest and mediastinal surgery,
• minimally invasive thoracic surgery,
• ECMO – extracorporeal membrane oxygenation,
• chest trauma,
• thoracic oncology,
• pleural diseases,
• robotic thoracic surgery,
• lung transplantation,
• treatment of pericarditis,
• esophageal surgery.