Dr. Yuval Sufaro

Senior deputy chief and senior neurosurgeon at the Department of Neurosurgery, Soroka Medical Center

Neurosurgery

Complex endoscopic skull base and brain surgery

Dr. Yuval Sufaro, one of Israel's senior neurosurgeons, specializes in performing skull base surgeries, treating brain and pituitary gland tumors, trigeminal neuralgia, normal pressure hydrocephalus, surgeries after head injuries, and general neurosurgical procedures. Dr. Sufaro serves as a senior neurosurgeon in the neurosurgery department at Soroka Medical Center and has been Deputy Chief of the department since January 2018. In his role, Dr. Sufaro is responsible for teaching residents and actively participates in the Israeli Neurosurgical Association, where he supervises the online school curriculum, serves on examination committees, and is a member of international professional associations.

• Senior Deputy Chief of the neurosurgery department

• Responsible for the residency program in the neurosurgery department

• Chair of the clinical internship committee at the Soroka Medical Center

• Leads the center for endoscopic skull base and pituitary surgeries

• Head of the Anatomy of the Nervous System course at the International Medical School, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

• Head of the nervous system anatomy course at the Department of Emergency Medicine, Recanati School of Health Professions at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, as well as for residency training and academic research in the neurosurgical department.

• 1997 - 2005 - Doctor of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

• 2002 - 2003 - M.Sc. at the Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. ​

• 2007 - 2013 - Specialization in neurosurgery (pituitary surgeries, skull base surgeries and endoscopic skull base surgeries) Soroka Medical Center

• 2015 - 2016​ - Fellowship in skull base surgeries and endoscopic surgeries, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia

• Training - 2011 - Endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery, Leipzig, Germany

• Training - 2012 - Trauma and degenerative diseases of the spine, Tel Aviv Israel

• Training - 2014 - Endoscopic skull base surgeries, Boston, USA

• Training - 2017 - Advanced endoscopic surgeries of the skull base, Bologna, Italy.

• Israel Neurosurgery Society

• Neurosurgical Society of Australasia

• Hebrew

• English

• Pituitary gland tumor resection surgery

• Ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery

• Surgical decompression of the trigeminal nerve

• Skull osteoma resection surgery

• Spinal cord tumor resection surgery