Professor Sergey Spektor
Neurosurgeon. A top Israeli neurosurgeon with 35 years of experience. Performs highly complex brain operations, including removal of malignant tumors of any location close to the brainstem. Forbes magazine has included Sergey Spektor in its list of the best doctors in Israel for many years in a row.
Professor Spektor performs routine neurosurgical operations and also specializes in the most complex areas of neurosurgery: cerebrovascular surgery and the removal of tumors at the base of the skull and near the brainstem, whether by open surgery or endoscopic surgery.
Professor Spektor has performed more than 5,000 complex neurosurgical operations. His academic career took place at Hadassah University Hospital (1992-2019), during which he was awarded the title of Professor of Neurosurgery.
Sergey Spektor graduated with honors from the Faculty of Medicine of the Ekaterinburg Medical Institute. He then completed his neurosurgery specialization at the Burdenko Institute of Neurosurgery. After moving to Israel he trained at Hadassah Ein Kerem, Israel.
From 1998 to 1999 he specialized at OHSU (Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA) in cerebrovascular surgery and the removal of skull base tumors. Sergey Spektor also completed several courses in endoscopic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh, and endoscopy courses in Paris and Vienna.
Professor Sergey Spektor is the author of more than 100 scientific articles published in leading international medical journals.
Since 2003 he has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew University (Jerusalem).
He is one of the editors of the main neurosurgical journal of the EANS (European Association of Neurosurgical Societies), Acta Neurochirurgica.
Sergey Spektor was elected Israel's representative to the EANS and also teaches as a professor on European neurosurgery courses on brain tumors, head injuries and operations on the cerebral vessels.
Thanks to his international recognition, he has been invited as a guest lecturer to many conferences in the USA, Canada, Europe, the Far East, Russia, Ukraine and Australia.
- Brain tumors;
- Metastases after treatment of oncological diseases;
- Neurinoma;
- Neoplasms of the eye area;
- Trigeminal neuralgia;
- Various vascular diseases;
- Hydrocephalus.