Dermatology

The Department of Dermatology clinics offer state-of-the-art treatment options for a broad range of skin conditions to patients from Israel and abroad, including:

• Adolescent skin conditions
• Aesthetic dermatology
• Autoimmune skin diseases
• Contact dermatitis and skin allergies
• Cutaneous drug reactions
• Dermatosurgery
• Hair and nail diseases
• Hereditary skin diseases
• Inflammatory and tropical skin diseases
• Pediatric dermatology
• Pigmentary disorders
• Psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis
• Psychodermatology
• Skin cancer (including early detection)
• Skin lymphoma
• Skin ulcers and chronic wounds
  

Special services include:

• All currently available modalities of phototherapy (light therapy) for a wide variety of disease treatment applications
• Photodynamic therapy
• Laser therapy
• Digital mole mapping

The department’s on-site medical laboratories perform diagnostic testing uniquely available in Israel, such as drug sensitivity testing and molecular testing for more than 45 genetic diseases.

The department has gained an international reputation through a large number of landmark studies in fields as diverse as genetic diseases, psoriasis and autoimmunity. Some of those discoveries are currently being translated into novel diagnostic and treatment approaches.

Through its education charter, the Department of Dermatology conducts various activities that contribute to medical excellence at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and to the overall practice of dermatology in Israel.

 

A main departmental responsibility is the commitment to professional teaching of residents, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. The teaching program integrates clinical residents, most of whom also perform basic scientific research, and researchers into day-to-day departmental activities. This approach encourages two-way information exchange throughout the department.

 

The teaching agenda also features seminars, an extensive physician round program, and weekly dermatopathology meetings. Students and residents regularly present their work at national and international conferences.

 

The department also sees the community as a partner in its mission and therefore devotes much efforts in various educational program aimed at patient groups and the population at large.

 

Open lectures on topics as diverse as cancer prevention and translational medicine, as well as special actions including free mole screening, are part of the department annual agenda.

Since the establishment of the first department of Dermatology in Paris in 1801 up to the development of the newest biological treatments of the twenty-first century, dermatology has undergone substantial transition.

 

This evolution has led to the development of countless new forms of therapies and therapeutic devices for dermatological ailments.

 

These advances are likely to reconfigure the entire framework of dermatology as we knew it only a few years ago. In the coming years, the mission of the Department of Dermatology at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center will be to confront this unprecedented situation by further developing its comprehensive multidisciplinary facilities, promoting medical research and education, and playing a central role in the development of innovative applicative technologies.