Yuri Goldes, MD

Dr. Yuri Goldes, Deputy Director, Department of General Surgery, Head of Upper GI Surgery Unit at Chaim Sheba Medical Center, specializes in Esophageal, Gastric and Pancreatic Cancer treatment using Laparoscopic & Robotic Surgery.

Dr. Goldes is a highly trained surgeon, who began his professional journey at the Sheba Medical Center and then continued his specialization with an Upper Gastro-Intestinal and Hepato-Biliary Surgery Fellowship at Department of General, Visceral Surgery and Transplantation, Medicinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany.

He than attended a several advanced trainings: workshop of Hepato-Biliary Surgery, Department of General, Visceral Surgery and Transplantation, Campus Virchow, Charite Medical Center; Advanced Laparoscopy; Workshop of the Da Vinci Robotic System, Strasbourg, France; Workshop of the “Habib” surgical instrument for liver resection, London, England; Workshop of the Nano Knife Technology for pancreatic and liver cancer, Louisville, Kentucky, US.

Dr. Goldes was the first surgeon in Israel to perform a stomach and pancreas procedure using a robotic system in 2012. As of today he is the only specialist in the country who performs a pancreatic head resection using a minimally invasive approach (laparoscopy).
FORBES Israeil has named Dr. Goldes to be the number 1 surgeon in Israel for gastroesophageal surgeries.

Dr. Goldes also serves as a Teacher and Tutor of students in General Surgery, and was named as a Distinguished Tutor and Teacher, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University (2005).