Prof. Shmuel Banai

Internal Medicine, Cardiology

1986 - 1988  Cardiology Fellowship, Department of Cardiology, Bikur-Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel  
1988 - 1991  National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Cardiology Branch, Section of Experimental Physiology and Pharmacology, Bethesda, Maryland, USA - post doctoral basic research in Cardiology

Director, Interventional Cardiology Unit, Cardiology Department, Bikur -Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem
1997-1998  Associate Hospital Director, Bikur-Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem
1999-2004 Associate Director, Department of Cardiology, Bikur-Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem
2002-2005 Chief Medical Officer, Neovasc Inc.
2004-2005  Senior Cardiologist, Director, Medical Unit, The Heart Institute, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem
2005-2009 Medical Director, Neovasc Medical 
2009-present  Medical Director, Neovasc Inc
2006-present  Director, Interventional Cardiology, Division of Cardiology, The Tel Aviv Souraski Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019  -present Director, Division of Cardiology, The Tel Aviv Souraski Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

2002   Associate Professor of Medicine and Cardiology. The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

2007   Associate Professor of Cardiology. Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel

2015 - Full Academic Professor of Cardiology,  Tel Aviv University, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel

2018 - Head of the Elizabeth and Nicholas Slazak Super Center For Cardiac Research and Medical Engineering, The Tel Aviv University

2018 - Head, the Walton Chair of Interventional Cardiology, Tel Aviv University

Prof Banai is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, more than 400 abstracts, and has participated in many clinical and pre-clinical research studies in the field of cardiology, interventional cardiology, and pharmacotherapy.

For a listing of recent publications, refer to PubMed