Assali Mourad

Dr. Assali Mourad                        

Head of the Urology Department

Medical Education

1996 – School of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel

Specialty

Urology

Licenses

MD – Israel

Positions and clinical experience

1998-2002           Residency in urology, Soroka medical hospital, Beer Sheva, Israel

2006 – Current – Reviewer of the Journal of Endo-urology

2007 – 2018 –     Senior resident in urology, Soroka medical hospital, Beer Sheva, Israel

2017 – 2020 –     Head of the laparoscopic service in urology, Soroka medical hospital, Beer

                               Sheva, Israel

2018-2020 –        Acting director of the urology department, Soroka medical hospital, Beer

                               Sheva, Israel

2020 – Current – Head of the urology department, Barzilai medical center, Ashkelon, Israel

Fellowships

Laparoscopy, robotics and endo-urology: France, England, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Belgium and Spain

Membership of Professional Organizations in Israel and Abroad

♦ Israel Medical Association

♦ State Physicians Organization

♦ 2015-2018 member of the Israeli urological committee

♦ Israel Urological Association

♦ Israel Club for Endo-urology

♦ International Club for Endo-urology

♦ Israel Society for Transplantations

♦ European Association of Urology – Active member

♦ International Society for Sexual Medicine

♦ Retired member of the Israel Society for Laparoscopic Surgery

♦ Retired member of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery

Academic Appointments

2002 – Current – Lecturer at the Recanati nursing school, Beer Sheva, Israel

2007 – Current – Editor of the final examination in surgery for the medical students  

Lecturer at the school of medicine, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

2002 – Current - Lecturer of the urological surgery course, Master in nursing

Other Activities

2015- Current – In charge of the Rakovchick Award for the excellent basic research in urology, The Israeli Urological Association

Research

Active researcher at the department of microbiology and immunology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Fields of special Interest

Dr. Assali was the first to use the da-Vinci Robot for surgeries of the kidney, ureter and prostate

Publications

93 publications in the national and international journals of urology