Dr. Helena Katzman (MD, PhD) is a leading specialist in hepatology, gastroenterology and internal medicine. She heads the Liver and Gallbladder Unit of the Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov) and teaches at the Tel Aviv University medical school.
Education and training:
- 1995 - Tel Aviv University medical school;
- 1997 - PhD in immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot);
- 1999 - residency in internal medicine at the Ichilov Medical Center;
- 2001 - specialisation in gastroenterology and hepatology;
- 2003 - fellowship in transplant hepatology at the University Health Network (Toronto, Canada).
Main areas of expertise:
- fatty liver disease (MASLD);
- liver fibrosis and cirrhosis, assessment of progression risk;
- viral hepatitis B and C, modern antiviral therapy;
- autoimmune liver disease;
- focal liver lesions, assessment of benign and malignant changes;
- transplant hepatology, care of patients before and after liver transplantation;
- work-up of elevated liver enzymes (ALT, AST);
- diseases of the gallbladder and biliary tract.
Dr. Katzman publishes in international medical journals, takes part in liver disease conferences and is a member of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) and the International Liver Transplantation Society.