Shoshann Yigal M.D.

Education / Training

Visiting Professor at the LINAC - based Radiosurgery unit in New Jersey state University Hospital, (UMDNJ), 2000

Clinical Fellow, Neuro-oncology/stereotactic & Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Department of neurological surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, 1998-1999

Research Fellow, Department of Neurosciences at the Lerner Research Institution of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, 1998

Research Fellow, The Molecular Genetic Center at the Lerner Research Institution of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, 1997

Neurosurgery Residency, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, 1989-1995

MD Cum-Laude from the Israel Institution of Technology Medical School, 1987

Technion - Israel Institution of Technology Medical School  - Cum Laude  - 1987

Appointments

Staff Neurosurgeon, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem since 1995

Lecturer in Neurosurgery, Hebrew University Medical School, since 1995

Awards / Grants

Recipient of the best paper award at the 24th neuroscience resident/fellows’ day, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 1999, “molecular genetic analyses of radiation-Induced meningiomas”.

The Israeli Chief Scientist of Ministry of Health Stipend for experimental studies on the effect of  superoxide  dismutase on peritumoral  brain  edema  in  rat brain tumor model. 1995 &1996  (40,000$  each year). Partner – Prof. TaliSiegal

The Hebrew University and Hadassah University Hospital research grant laboratory study on brain tumor model. 1993 & 1994, 5000$ for each year.Partner – Prof. TaliSiegal.

Dean’s Honor list of medical Sciences, Technion 1981,1982, 1983, 1984