Professor Moshe Shabtai
Surgeon. Professor of medicine. A leading expert in traditional and laparoscopic endocrine surgery and in the surgical treatment of malignant breast tumors. Deputy head of the department of general surgery and transplantation, head of the breast and neck surgery department and chief physician of the endocrine surgery department.
Moshe Shabtai is an outstanding physician with rich and varied clinical experience who performs operations on the organs of the endocrine and digestive systems with virtuosity. The professor also masters the most modern and progressive tactics for breast resection and reconstruction in women with cancer. In his clinical practice Moshe Shabtai developed and introduced techniques such as microsurgical parathyroidectomy in elderly patients with hyperparathyroidism, laparoscopic adrenalectomy, optimization of the function of kidney transplants, robot-assisted subtotal gastrectomy for gastric cancer, single-stage mastectomy with breast reconstruction and prosthetics, and many others.
The professor is a leader and an example for many surgeons. His name regularly appears on lists of the best doctors compiled by the authoritative business magazine Forbes. It was on Moshe Shabtai's initiative that gentle laparoscopic resection of tumors of internal organs began to be practiced in Israel for oncology patients. He constantly works on reports, monographs and teaching manuals, seeking to pass his personal experience and valuable knowledge to younger generations of doctors. The professor is regularly invited to international events as a lecturer and master-class leader.
Moshe Shabtai graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Medicine of the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa. He studied urological surgery and showed an interest in operating from his early years. After graduating he completed his internship and residency in the general surgery department of Sheba Medical Center. He was then invited for a fellowship at the State University of New York university clinic. He was awarded the academic degrees of doctor and professor of medical sciences.
On returning to Israel he began practicing at Sheba. Today the professor holds leadership positions in three departments: general surgery and organ transplantation, endocrine surgery, and breast and neck surgery. He is also a visiting lecturer at prestigious educational institutions in Israel and abroad, heads research groups, and personally trains junior specialists and foreign trainees.
Moshe Shabtai's professional interests are multifaceted: he performs operations of almost any location and complexity.
The professor has achieved the greatest success in the following procedures:
- Abdominal operations (open and laparoscopic)
- Repair of umbilical and inguinal hernias
- Thyroidectomy and parathyroidectomy under robot and computer navigation guidance
- Surgical interventions for malignant neoplasms of the abdominal organs and retroperitoneal space, endocrine glands and, in women, the breast
- Immediate and delayed reconstructive and plastic breast surgery after radical mastectomy
- Endoscopic operations on the breast and neck
- Kidney transplantation
Moshe Shabtai's current tasks and goals are to introduce innovative surgical strategies into practice, to teach specialists unique surgical protocols and to provide effective help to patients, including the seriously ill.