Professor Daniel Azoulay
Hepatobiliary surgeon and liver transplant specialist. Professor of medicine. Chief physician of the liver disease center. An expert in hepatobiliary surgery and liver transplantation.
Professor Daniel Azoulay is a world-famous surgeon, gastroenterologist, hepatologist and transplant specialist. A leader in Europe and Israel in liver transplantation and other complex surgical interventions. In 2012 the professor operated on Major General Meir Dagan, former head of the Mossad, as a result of which Dagan lived another four years with the discouraging diagnosis of progressive hepatocellular carcinoma. In total Daniel Azoulay has performed 1,500 liver transplants from living and deceased donors, as well as thousands of hepatopancreatobiliary operations, considered among the most complex and "jewel-like" in the surgical profession.
The professor is a recognized expert in unique surgical interventions, including radiofrequency ablation of liver neoplasms, partial and total liver transplantation, bypass surgery and hyperthermic perfusion. Daniel Azoulay performs procedures with next-generation Da Vinci robots, thereby minimizing the risks of blood loss and other intraoperative complications.
Daniel Azoulay was born and raised in France. He graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Paris. He completed his internship and postgraduate studies at the Paul Brousse hospital and then a clinical residency at the Henri Mondor university hospital in Paris, where he became a senior surgeon and received the degree of doctor of medical sciences. Twenty-two years later he was appointed head of the department of digestive and hepatobiliary surgery at a Paris university hospital. He was awarded the title of professor of medicine.
Already a distinguished physician, the professor immigrated to Israel and began working at Sheba, where after a short time he headed the liver disease center and became the leading transplant specialist. Daniel Azoulay's move was driven not only by love for his native culture but also by a sincere desire to improve the field of gastroenterological and hepatobiliary surgery in Israel.
The professor is an honorary member of the following organizations:
- French Transplantation Society
- French Society of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation
- European Society for Surgical Research
- European Society for Organ Transplantation
- European Association of Practicing Surgeons
- French Association for the Study of the Liver
- French Society of Intensive Care
Daniel Azoulay loves to share knowledge and experience with the younger generation of doctors. Over the years of practice he has published more than 400 articles, monographs and scientific studies peer-reviewed by authoritative journals. His work has been published in journals such as the British Journal of Surgery, World Journal of Surgery, Annals of Surgery and others.
Professor Daniel Azoulay's activity centers on surgical treatment of pathologies of the gastrointestinal tract and hepatopancreatobiliary system. In particular, he successfully operates on people with malignant tumors of the abdominal organs.
Daniel Azoulay's expertise includes:
- Abdominal operations in full scope
- Surgical bypass procedures on internal organs
- Surgical treatment of severe forms of hepatitis and hepatosis, as well as liver cirrhosis
- Resection of the stomach, liver, intestine, pancreas and other organs for large and aggressive neoplasms
- Local perfusion of chemotherapy drugs into the peritoneum
- Radiofrequency ablation of the liver
- Robot-assisted laparoscopic operations
- Donor liver transplantation
- Postoperative patient management
The professor's plans include maximum optimization of transplantology and hepatopancreatobiliary surgery in Israel, continuing to save patients' lives, and training doctors in innovative methods of surgical treatment.