Former Head of
Department of Neurosurgery
Hadassah University Hospital
Ein-Karem, Jerusalem
E-mail: Umansky@hadassah.org.il
Born in Rosario, Argentina, 1943
Education and Training
1969 Rosario University Medical School, Rosario, Argentina M.D.
1969 - 1970 Medical Internship Centenario National Hospital, Rosario, Argentina.
1970 Resident in Internal Medicine, Dr. Clemente Alvarez Hospital, Rosario, Argentina.
1971 - 1972 Resident in Neurology, Dr. Clemente Alvarez Hospital, Rosario, Argentina.
1973 - 1979 Resident in Neurosurgery, Beilinson Medical Center, Tel Aviv University Hospital, Petah Tikva, Israel.
Post Residency Training
1981 - 1982 Clinical and Research Fellow in Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
1982 - 1984 Clinical and Research Fellow in Microneurosurgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.
1989 Course on Skull Base Surgery and Microanatomy, Department of Neurosurgery, Presbyterian Hospital., University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
1995 Course on Neuroendoscopy Training, Neurosurgical Department, Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
1995 Program for Chiefs of Clinical Services, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Visiting Professor and Sabbaticals
1992 Visiting Professor (Sabbatical) Department of Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
1992 Visiting Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Ossaka, Japan.
1995 Visiting Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.
1995 Visiting Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Mainz, Germany.
Hospital Appointments
1980 - 1983 Staff, Department of Neurosurgery, Beilinson Medical Center, Tel-Aviv University Hospital, Petah Tiqva, Israel.
Since 1984 Staff, Department of Neurosurgery, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
From 1993 Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
Academic Appointments
1965 - 1972 Instructor in Microbiology and Parasitology, Rosario University Medical School, Rosario, Argentina.
1977 - 1982 Instructor in Neurosurgery, Tel-Aviv University Medical School, Israel.
1980 - 1982 Instructor in Neuroanatomy, Tel-Aviv University Medical School, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Since 1985 Lecturer, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
1986 - 1991 Senior Lecturer, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
Since 1991 Associate Professor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
Since 1992 Clinical Associate Professor, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.
Since 1995 Member of the Training Committee of the European Association of Neurological Surgeons.
Since 1996 Expert on Neurosurgery of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Since 1997 Member of the Education Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS).
Since 2002 Member of the Skull Base Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS).
Since 2004 Professor of Neurosurgery, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
Medical Societies (Member)
Since 1980 Israel Neurosurgical Society
Since 1980 Israel Surgical Society
1986 - 1988 Secretary of Israel Neurosurgical Society
Since 1987 Congress of Neurological Surgeons
Since 1990 North American Skull Base Society
Since 1990 Member of the Council, Israel Surgical Society
Since 1990 Member of the European Association of Neurological Surgeons
Since 1991 Joint Section on Tumors of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons
Since 1993 The New York Academy of Sciences
Since 1993 Joint Section on Neurotrauma and Critical Care of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons
Since 1993 New England Neurosurgical Society
Since 1994 American Association of Neurological Surgeons
Since 1996 The Society of Neurological Surgeons
1997-2001 President of the Israeli Neurosurgical Society
Since 1997 Member of the Argentine Neurosurgical Society
Member of Editorial Board in Medical Journals
Since 1991 Neurological Research
Since 1996 Neurosurgery (International Liaison and Advisory Panel)
Since 1997 Journal of Radiosurgery
Since 1998 Journal of Neurosurgical Sciences
Awards
1980 - The Professor B. Borenstein Prize for Research in the Field of Neurosciences 1980, (all Israel Prize) awarded for: Umansky, F. et al. “Regional Cerebral Blood Flow in the Acute Stage of Experimentally Induced Subarachnoid Hemorrhage”.
1983 - First Place for Medical Exhibit: Umansky F., et al. “Microsurgical Anatomy of the Perforating Branches of the Middle Cerebral Artery”. Congress of Neurological Surgeons. Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, 1983.
1985 - The Professor Davidoff Prize for Research in Neurosciences awarded for: Umansky F., et al. “Microsurgical Anatomy of the Perforating Branches of the Middle Cerebral Artery
1994 - The Mahaley Clinical Research Award for: Constantini S., Friedman A., Shoshan Y., Israel Z., Ashkenazi E., Muallem N., Gartel M., Shevach Y., Rappaport Z., Shalit M. and Umansky F. “Safety of Perioperative Minidose Heparin in the Prevention of Thromboembolic Phenomena in Neurosurgical Patients Operated for the Removal of Brain Tumors”. American Association of Neurological Surgeons. Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA, USA.
Selected Publications since 2001:
Constantini, S., A. Kanner, A. Friedman, Y. Shoshan, Z. Israel, E. Ashkenazi, M. Gertel, A. Even, Y. Shevach, M. Shalit, F. Umansky and Z. H. Rappaport (2001). "Safety of perioperative minidose heparin in patients undergoing brain tumor surgery: a prospective, randomized, double-blind study." Journal of neurosurgery 94(6): 918-921.
Mandil, R., E. Ashkenazi, M. Blass, I. Kronfeld, G. Kazimirsky, G. Rosenthal, F. Umansky, P. S. Lorenzo, P. M. Blumberg and C. Brodie (2001). "Protein kinase Calpha and protein kinase Cdelta play opposite roles in the proliferation and apoptosis of glioma cells." Cancer research 61(11): 4612-4619.
Weisberg, S., E. Ashkenazi, Z. Israel, M. Attia, Y. Shoshan, F. Umansky and C. Brodie (2001). "Anaplastic and atypical meningiomas express high levels of Fas and undergo apoptosis in response to Fas ligation." The American journal of pathology 159(4): 1193-1197.
Segal, R., Y. Shoshan, Z. Israel, S. Spektor, J. Cohen, S. Fraifeld and F. Umansky (2005). "Neurosurgery at the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem." Neurosurgery 56(5): 1135-1148; discussion 1135-1148.
Shoshan, Y., M. Wygoda and F. Umansky (2005). "Stereotactic radiosurgery and fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy: background, definitions, applications." The Israel Medical Association journal : IMAJ 7(9): 597-599.
Spektor, S., J. Valarezo, D. M. Fliss, Z. Gil, J. Cohen, J. Goldman and F. Umansky (2005). "Olfactory groove meningiomas from neurosurgical and ear, nose, and throat perspectives: approaches, techniques, and outcomes." Neurosurgery 57(4 Suppl): 268-280; discussion 268-280.
Segal, R., A. Furmanov and F. Umansky (2006). "Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage: to operate or not to operate, that's the question." The Israel Medical Association journal : IMAJ 8(11): 815-818.
Sadetzki, S., L. Zach, A. Chetrit, D. Nass, C. Hoffmann, Z. Ram, M. Zaaroor, F. Umansky, Z. H. Rappaport, A. Cohen, U. Wald, S. Rothman and M. Hadani (2008). "Epidemiology of gliomas in Israel: a nationwide study." Neuroepidemiology 31(4): 264-269.
Umansky, F., Y. Shoshan, G. Rosenthal, S. Fraifeld and S. Spektor (2008). "Radiation-induced meningioma." Neurosurgical focus 24(5): E7.
Lomonaco, S. L., S. Finniss, C. Xiang, A. Decarvalho, F. Umansky, S. N. Kalkanis, T. Mikkelsen and C. Brodie (2009). "The induction of autophagy by gamma-radiation contributes to the radioresistance of glioma stem cells. " International journal of cancer. Journal international du cancer, 125(3): 717-722.
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