Dr. Michael Peer

Qualification and Experience 

Dr Michael Peer is a Cardiothoracic specialist at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Centre (Ichilov Medical Centre), Tel-Aviv, Israel with 21 years of experience.  He is currently the Head of Chest Surgery Department at Ichilov Medical Centre. Dr Peer graduated from Tbilisi State Medical University, MD (Republic of Georgia) and went on to complete his residency in thoracic surgery at Assaf Harofeh Medical Centre. He even did a course on thoracoscopic advanced lung surgery at the Cedars-Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, USA. He specialises in Lung Disease, lung cancer surgery as well as robotic thymectomy. He is also a lecturer at Tel Aviv University and Head of Thoracic Surgery Unit at the Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, Edith Wolfson Medical Centre.

Contribution to Medical Science

Dr Michael Peer is the Author of more than 20 articles on the subjects of surgery for lung cancer, mediastinal and pleural pathology and others. He is also a frequent speaker at international and local annual meetings. In 2015 Dr Peer attended a course of surgical controversies in thoracic surgery, a course at the endoscopic training centre, ESTS, Hamburg, Germany. He is also a member of many organisations such as the International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery, Reviewer of the "Innovations" journal and the Israeli and European Associations for Endoscopic Surgery to name a few. 

Qualification

• 1995 - Graduated from Tbilisi State Medical University, MD (Republic of Georgia)
• 2007 - Residency in thoracic surgery at Assaf Harofeh Medical Center
• 2008 - Thoracoscopic advanced lung surgery at the Cedars-Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, USA
• 2012 - Thoracoscopic esophageal surgery observer at the Cedars-Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, USA
• 2013 - Robotic thymectomy observer at the Charite Hospital, Berlin, Germany
• 2013 - a course in the da Vinci training center, EEC (Ecole Européenne de Chirurgie), Paris, France
• 2015 - course of surgical controversies in thoracic surgery, a course at the endoscopic training center, ESTS, Hamburg, Germany

Work Experiences

• Chief of the Thoracic Surgery Department, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center
• Head of Thoracic Surgery Unit at the Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, Edith Wolfson Medical Center
• Senior Surgeon in the Thoracic Surgery Department, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center