Professor Einat Birk
Professor Einat Birk is a leading cardiologist with long clinical experience, an internationally-level specialist in diagnosing and treating congenital heart defects in children and newborns. Head of the heart disease institute at a children's medical center.
Dr. Einat Birk graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University. She later trained in pediatrics at Stanford University Medical Center and in pediatric cardiology at the University of California medical center in the USA.
Professor Birk, as a practicing cardiac specialist, treats heart disease in children, including newborn infants, at the largest pediatric institution of its kind in the Middle East.
Dr. Birk performs complex cardiac operations, including unique operations using her own original method. Among the unique operations performed by Dr. Einat Birk are valve replacement by catheterization in a child, treatment of the trachea in newborns, heart transplantation in newborns, and defibrillator implantation. In 2009 Einat Birk was included in the list of the 50 most influential women in Israel: Dr. Birk received the award for introducing the technology of pulmonary valve implantation by catheter in children with congenital heart defects. In the same year, according to the "Women of the Year" yearbook (Israel), she was named one of the 50 influential women of the year for services in pediatric cardiac care.
- Thoracic aortic aneurysms
- Arrhythmia in children
- Arterial hypertension
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Diagnosis and treatment of septal defects of the heart
- Diseases of the great vessels
- Myocardial infarction
- Coronary heart disease
- Cerebrovascular disorders
- Heart rhythm and conduction disorders
- Pericarditis in children
- Heart failure
- Angina in children
- And other cardiac diseases