Professor Lior Heller

Professor Lior Heller is a leading Israeli surgeon with a worldwide reputation in plastic and general surgery. More than 20 years of experience.

Professor Lior Heller is a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and holds two specialties, in plastic surgery and general surgery.

In 1996, after completing his general surgery residency at Beilinson Hospital, he specialized in general surgery and then also trained in plastic surgery at Assaf Harofeh Medical Center.

Lior Heller continued his research at Duke University School of Medicine (North Carolina, USA), where he also completed a course in reconstructive plastic surgery.

In 2001-2002, together with Dr. Oscar Ramirez, he studied aesthetic plastic surgery in depth at a company in Maryland (USA).

The following year, at the cancer center of Baylor College of Medicine (Texas, USA), he studied reconstructive plastic surgery. In 2006 Lior Heller became a senior physician in the plastic surgery department of Baylor College of Medicine in Texas.

After returning to Israel, Lior Heller became head physician of the plastic surgery department.

Professor Heller is the author of many scientific articles.

Academic practice

• Teaching within the plastic surgery program, Baylor College of Medicine;
• Teaching in the Department of Plastic Surgery (MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas);
• Surgeon and practical instructor of the 7th, 8th and 9th International Baltimore Workshop, 3-D Facial Rejuvenation, Maryland;
• Course director of pre-hospital trauma intensive care for trainees, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva;
• Academic supervisor of student groups in the American and Israeli programs, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University;
• Coordinator of the general surgery curriculum, Dana medical school, Tel Aviv University.

• General surgery
• Plastic surgery
• Surgical oncology