Professor Zvi Ram

Professor Zvi Ram is a leading Israeli neurosurgeon, a top-class specialist in the removal of brain tumors and in neurosurgery for cerebral trauma. Many years of experience in neurosurgical interventions and mastery of the most modern minimally invasive technologies allow this talented physician to achieve positive results in cases of the highest complexity. As a specialist of the highest qualification, Professor Zvi Ram is invited to many countries around the world to perform neurosurgical operations.

Professor Zvi Ram received his medical education at Tel Aviv University, graduating with honors and excellent recommendations from the renowned Sackler Faculty of Medicine. After completing his residency as a neurosurgeon at the Sheba Medical Center in Israel, he joined the staff of that hospital's neurosurgery department and soon, thanks to his hard work and demonstrated clinical ability, became a senior physician of the department. In 1991 Zvi Ram was sent to the USA to improve his qualifications and practical skills, where he worked as a neurosurgeon in the department of surgical treatment of diseases of the central nervous system at the National Institute of Mental Health. Returning to Israel in 1994, Professor Zvi Ram again took up the post of leading neurosurgery specialist at the Tel HaShomer company, and since 2003 he has headed the neurosurgery department at the largest medical center in Israel, Sourasky.

Today Professor Zvi Ram is a leading specialist in neurosurgery whose name is widely known far beyond Israel. A brilliant practitioner and clinician, he continues active research aimed at finding even more successful ways to treat tumors of the brain and its membranes and pituitary neoplasms. As a scientist, Zvi Ram pays much attention to developing and improving high-tech methods of neurosurgical operations and of studying CNS tissue: high-frequency focused MRI, intraoperative MRI, and the compilation of spectrographic brain maps to improve the effectiveness of neurosurgical operations.

Professor Zvi Ram lectures at Tel Aviv University, heads the Union of European Associations of Neurosurgeons and the Israeli Neurosurgical Society, serves as a staff consultant to several large international companies conducting scientific research in biotechnology, and publishes in prestigious medical journals around the world.

Professor Zvi Ram's expertise includes endoscopic minimally invasive neurosurgical operations for a wide variety of diseases of the brain and the tissues of the head and neck, including:

• minimally invasive neurosurgery of intraventricular brain tumors using modern endoscopic equipment;
• surgical removal of arachnoendotheliomas, neurinomas of the myelin sheaths (schwannomas), pituitary tumors, etc.;
• surgery of tumors of the neck and head;
• destruction of head tumors using advanced radiosurgical technologies (stereotactic knife);
• neurosurgical operations on the spinal cord using the latest endoscopic techniques;
• surgical treatment of epilepsy;
• repair of aneurysms of the vessels of the head and neck and vascular malformations;
• treatment of hemifacial spasm by microvascular decompression, and much more.

In his neurosurgical practice Professor Zvi Ram uses advanced techniques of surgical access to tissues, such as the transsphenoidal approach in pituitary neurosurgery, stereotactic surgery, and craniotomy with the patient awake for neurosurgery of tumor lesions located in vitally important areas.