Professor Sharon Hassin-Baer

Professor Sharon Hassin-Baer is a leading Israeli specialist in the treatment of movement disorders. She is an internationally recognized expert in the diagnosis and therapy of movement disorders using both medication and surgical methods.

Professor Hassin-Baer was the first neurologist in Israel to specialize in functional neurosurgical interventions for movement disorders, improving her skills at leading medical centers in the USA, Canada and Europe.

Since the mid-1990s she has taken part in pallidotomy, thalamotomy and deep brain stimulation (DBS) procedures, and later introduced these methods into clinical practice together with neurosurgeon Roberto Spiegelmann.

In 2002 she founded the deep brain stimulation company at Sheba Medical Center, where she remains a leading specialist and instructor in DBS.

Since 2015 she has also specialized in focused ultrasound thalamotomy, a modern non-invasive method for treating tremor and other movement disorders.

Sharon Hassin-Baer began her medical studies at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine of the Technion in Haifa in 1985. After her second year she transferred to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University, graduating in 1991. She completed her internship at the Sourasky Medical Center and her residency in the Department of Neurology at Sheba Medical Center in 1991-1997. She then completed a clinical fellowship in movement disorders under Prof. Nir Giladi at the Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv in 1997-1998.

Since 1997 she has worked as a senior neurologist in the Department of Neurology at Sheba Medical Center and as a lecturer at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.

In 1999 she founded a company for Parkinson's disease and movement disorders, which was transformed into the Movement Disorders Institute in 2014.

Scientific publications of Professor Sharon Hassin-Baer

• Anodic versus cathodic neurostimulation of the subthalamic nucleus: A randomized-controlled study of acute clinical effects
• Sexuality in patients with Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and other dementias
• Exploring determinants of progression in Parkinson's disease. Is there a difference among Jewish ethnic groups?
• Genetic movement disorders in patients of Jewish ancestry

• Neurology
• Tourette syndrome
• Dystonia
• Cerebellar ataxia
• Friedreich's ataxia
• Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome
• Botulinum toxin injections for movement disorders
• Deep brain stimulation
• Parkinson's disease
• Parkinsonism
• Multiple system atrophy
• Progressive supranuclear palsy
• Balance and gait disorders
• Huntington's disease
• Tremor
• Essential tremor