Professor Aaron Popovtzer

Aaron Popovtzer graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After university he continued his studies in a residency in head and neck surgery at Beilinson Hospital (Petah Tikva). He completed a second specialization in oncology and radiology at the University of Michigan hospital in Ann Arbor and at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York. The innovative techniques of brachytherapy and focused external-beam radiotherapy mastered during these fellowships allow him to diagnose and treat the disease comprehensively, from the standpoint of an otolaryngologist, an oncologist and a radiotherapist, which makes him a universal specialist in this field.

Professor Popovtzer heads the Israeli Society of Head and Neck Oncology and is a member of the Israeli society of otolaryngologists.

Currently Professor Popovtzer heads the country's only department specializing in head and neck oncology at the Davidoff Cancer Center of Rabin Medical Center. He is also deputy director of the center. The doctors of the department under Aaron Popovtzer's leadership, using unique organ-preserving technologies and world achievements in pharmacology, successfully fight neoplasms of the head and neck.

Aaron Popovtzer is a physician-researcher who, together with Israeli scientists, develops new methods and improves existing methods of diagnosing and treating neoplasms in otorhinolaryngology, and is an active participant and speaker at international scientific conferences and symposia.

For many years Professor Popovtzer has combined clinical and scientific work with teaching on continuing education courses for doctors at Rabin Medical Center, and also teaches clinical oncology at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Medicine.

• Diagnosis and comprehensive treatment of all types of head and neck cancer.
• Therapy for thyroid cancer.
• Adjuvant chemoradiotherapy for head and neck cancer.
• Therapy for late-stage laryngeal cancer.