Dr. Rafi Klein

Breast surgery, melanoma, general surgery, aesthetic medicine

Dr. Rafi Klein is a specialist in general surgery, breast pathology and breast surgery. Formerly the leading breast surgeon of the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Dr. Klein maintains private offices in Haifa and Tel Aviv, focusing on general surgery, surgical treatment of breast cancer, and melanoma.

• Medical manager of private general surgery practices in Haifa and Tel Aviv

• Formerly the chief breast surgeon of the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa.

• Founder of the first Israeli clinical framework for women at high risk of breast cancer in the Rambam Medical Center

• Attending surgeon at the Assutah Medical Center

• Consultant and attending surgeon at the Meuhedet and Leumit Healthcare Funds

• Clinical fellowship in breast surgery at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

• Clinical fellowship in breast surgery at the Breast Service Department, New York

• Clinical fellowship in breast surgery at the Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy

• Clinical fellowship in breast surgery at the Breast Center, Vancouver, BC, Canada

• Residency in general surgery at the Rambam Medical Center

• Participated in numerous international conferences on breast surgery, melanoma, and aesthetic medicine

• Courses in aesthetic medicine - Injectables

• Graduate of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology School of Medicine

• Israeli Surgical Association

• The Israel Senologic Society

• The European school of Oncology

• The Israeli & European Society of breast

• Hebrew

• English

• Breast conditions and surgery

  • Lumpectomy

  • Sentinel lymph node dissection

  • Total mastectomy

  • Axillary lymph node dissection

  • Mastectomy combined with intraoperative radiation therapy

  • Mastectomy combined with immediate reconstruction in different approaches

  • Nipple sparing mastectomy

• Melanoma treatment

  • Sentinel lymph node biopsy and radical skin excision

  • Radical dissection of inguinal (groin) lymph nodes

  • Radical dissection of axilllary lymph nodes

• Aesthetics

  • Face contouring injections

  • Botox injection

  • Fillers injection