Cell Phone Number: (050)-8573671

Fax Number: (02)-6449412

E-mail Address: almogyg@yahoo.com

Personal Details

Date of Birth: June 24, 1964

Country of Birth: UK (to Israeli parents)

Date of Immigration: November 1964

Nationality: Israeli

Family Status: Married

Number of Children: Four (Tamar-11, Shira-9, Yotam-7 and Avigail 3)

Military Service: Israeli Paratroopers (lieutenant)

Higher Education

10/1986-12/1992: Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine—MD

7/2002-6/2004: University of Southern California-Los Angeles County Hospital, clinical fellowship in foregut surgery, host: Dr TR DeMeester

Appointments at Hebrew University:

October 1999: Instructor in Surgery

October 2002: Lecturer in Surgery

Additional Functions/Tasks at Hebrew University

2002: Member, Committee for Reforming National Examination in Surgery, Association of Deans of the Faculties of Medicine in Israel

2005-present: Member, Committee for Prevention of Infections, Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Medicine

2004 - present: Member, Committee for Computerization of Patient Files

2004 - present: Member, Committee for National Examination in Surgery

Service in Other Academic and Research Institutions

July 2002-June 2004: Fellow, Department of Foregut Surgery, Division of General Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Other Activity

Prizes awarded

1987 - Role of honor, the Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

1989 - B Medicine cum Laude, the Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

1992 - Outstanding thesis award, Thesis for MD, the Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

1996 - Suschin prize for excellence in residency, the Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

2001-2002: List of distinguished clinical instructors, Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Medicine

2002: Awarded the Clinical Fellowship Grant from the Milwitsky Fund

2002: Awarded the Clinical Fellowship Grant from the Israel Cancer Society

2005-7: List of distinguished clinical instructors, Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Medicine

Research Grants

2002: Research grant from the Israel Cancer Association

Teaching at the Hebrew University

Supervision of Master’s and Doctoral Degree Students:

Orly Barak, MD thesis, "Indications for early percutaneous cholecystostomy for acute cholecystitis"

Ayelet Mintz, MD thesis, "Post-traumatic stress disorder in hospitalized terror attack victims: an analyzed prospective evaluation".

Courses Taught by candidate

2002-2006: Preface to Clinical Surgery – Fifth year medical students

2004-present: General Surgery - Fifth year medical students

2004-present: Trauma - Sixth year medical students

Current Interests and Research

I have performed numerous laparoscopic and open operations on benign and malignant diseases of the esophagus and stomach. I have specialized in laparoscopic procedures for achalasia (laparoscopic myotomy) and for gastro-esophageal reflux disease (laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication).

As a research fellow with the Department of Surgery, at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles I was exposed to the unique considerations of foregut surgery, i.e. surgery of the esophagus and stomach. My research focused in two fields: The occurrence and significance of specific manometric findings (namely hypertensive swallow responses in the distal esophagus) in patients with gastro-esophageal reflux disease and respiratory symptoms; and the typical manometric, endoscopic and radiographic findings of failed anti-reflux surgery and their correlation to anatomical, functional and symptomatic parameters.

I reported on the indications for partial gastrectomy as the initial surgical treatment of morbidly obese patients with significant risk factors and on the rare occurrence of achalasia and obesity.