Professor Avishay Grupper

Director of the Heart Failure Unit, Shamir Medical Center

Heart diseases and heart failure

Professor Avishay Grupper is an expert cardiologist. Professor Avishay Grupper manages the Heart Failure Unit at Shamir Medical Center. Professor Avishay Grupper runs a private clinic specializing in cardiology in Tel Aviv. Professor Grupper specializes in primary prevention of heart diseases by balancing risk factors such as cholesterol and diabetes through optimal medical treatment, and in follow-up after heart attacks with balanced drug therapy and return to activity while maintaining a healthy lifestyle for secondary prevention of heart disease. In addition, Professor Grupper specializes in monitoring and treating heart failure by adapting drug therapy to different types of the disease, and diagnosing the causes of the disease through the use of dedicated tests including laboratory tests, imaging, and genetic investigation. Professor Grupper is active in research, both in Israel and internationally, including international studies with collaborations in the field of heart failure, and in the field of heart disease prevention and the connection between heart diseases and diabetes, obesity, and kidney failure. Professor Grupper also leads studies examining drug treatment options before LVAD implantation surgery, in order to reduce the rate of complications around the surgery, alongside studies that follow changes in metabolic parameters after the surgery. Additionally, Dr. Gropper is involved in numerous studies on drug treatment for patients with chronic heart failure, and patients with acute heart failure admitted to the cardiac intensive care unit.

• Director of a private clinic specializing in cardiology in Tel Aviv

• Director of the Heart Failure Unit at Shamir Medical Center

• Chairman of the Heart Failure Association at the Israel Heart Society

• Specialization in heart failure, heart transplantation, and left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, USA

• Specialization in cardiology at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer

• Specialization in internal medicine at Ichilov Medical Center

• Senior lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

• Co-author of scientific articles in the field of heart failure, heart transplantation, and left ventricular assist devices (LVAD)

• Graduate of the Hebrew University and Hadassah School of Medicine in Jerusalem

• Chairman of the Heart Failure Division in the Israel Heart Society

• European Heart Failure Association

• International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation

• European Society of Cardiology

• Hebrew

• English

• Artificial Heart Implantation (LVAD)

• Heart transplants

• Heart muscle diseases

• Heart failure

• Valvular diseases

• Pulmonary hypertension

• Guidance for a healthy lifestyle and prevention of heart diseases