Professor Amit Tirosh

Professor Amit Tirosh is a senior endocrinologist, a specialist in treating neuroendocrine tumors and head of the neuroendocrine tumor service at the Institute of Endocrinology at Sheba Medical Center. Professor Tirosh specializes in hereditary syndromes associated with the development of neuroendocrine tumors, was a fellow at the US National Institutes of Health in the field of MEN1 syndrome, is a member of a group of international VHL experts and is a co-author of the guideline for managing patients with VHL. He is also the contact person for patients at the multidisciplinary VHL clinic at Sheba Medical Center.

• MD, Hadassah Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem
• Residency in internal medicine, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center
• Fellowship in endocrinology, Rabin Medical Center
• Fellowship in neuroendocrine tumors and the genetics of endocrine diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Maryland, USA

Professor Tirosh conducts active research in a laboratory specializing in the bioinformatics of endocrine cancer in general and neuroendocrine tumors in particular. As head of the endocrinology research laboratory, he actively collaborates with research groups in the USA, Italy and Germany and with researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science.

As head of the neuroendocrine tumor service at the Endocrinology and Diabetes Research Center, Professor Tirosh provides patients with advanced medical treatment. He regularly lectures on the subject to medical students at Tel Aviv University School of Medicine.

• endocrinology
• neuroendocrine tumors