Director of the functional neurosurgery unit in the neurosurgical department at the Tel-Aviv Medical Center. Specialise in movement disorder surgery, epilepsy surgery and neurosurgical procedures to modulate or disconnect pain pathways in the central nervous system. Co-director of the inter-disciplinary clinic for refractory pain in cancer patients. The clinic evaluates cancer patients from all over Israel, who have failed all other “conventional” treatments and are suffering from intractable pain due to cancer. Appropriate patients are offered innovative neurosurgical interventions to disconnect the pain pathways in the spinal cord or modulate the pain perception in the brain neural-networks.