Telephone: 04-7744656
Email: shochat@hymc.gov.il
Positions and appointments:
Internal medicine, cardiology, invasive cardiology, heart failure cardiology
Senior Physician in the Interventional Cardiology Unit
Coordinator of the field of hemodynamic cardiac catheterization (right heart catheterization)
Head of the Heart Failure Clinic at Hillel Yaffe Medical Center
Studies:
University, physics – Electronic engineer
University, medicine – Internal medicine
Meir Medical Center (Internal medicine)
Hillel Yaffe Medical Center (Cardiology)
Academic appointments:
Associate Clinical Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, the Technion, Haifa.
Memberships in professional associations and organizations:
Israel Heart Society
European Society of Cardiology
Heart Failure Association of the ESC
American College of Cardiology
Heart Failure Association of America
Special interest areas:
Heart failure
Ischemic heart disease
Heart catheterizations
Development of innovative technologies for cardiology
Clinical studies
Previous clinical experience:
1985-1990 – Assistant Professor in the Internal Medicine Department
1991-1996 – Residency in Internal Medicine, Meir Medical Center
1996-1999 – Residency in Cardiology, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center
1999-2010 – Senior Physician in Cardiology, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center
From 2010 – Head of the Heart Failure Clinic
Research:
Head researcher for six international and national clinical studies in the field of cardiology, particularly heart failure.
