Dr.Moshe Attia

Dr.Moshe Attia

MD, Attending Neurosurgeon,

Skull Base Surgery Department of Neurosurgery

Rambam Health Care Campus Haifa,

Israel.

Dr. Moshe Attia is a board certified neurosurgeon in the department of Neurosurgery at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa. His specialty focuses on skull base and cerebrovascular surgery. Previously, Dr. Attia was an attending neurosurgeon at Hadassah where he has operated and participated in multiple skull base surgeries. As an attending neurosurgeon he has performed craniotomies and clipping of intracranial aneurysms, resection of skull base tumors, cerebral revascularizations (bypass), resection of benign and malignant brain tumors, head trauma surgeries and general neurosurgery.

Education

Dr. Moshe Attia graduated top 5% of class in 2001 from the Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical School. He became a board certified neurosurgeon in May 2007 after graduating a neurosurgical residency (2001-2007) at Chaim Sheba Medical Center in Tel HaShomer. Afterwards, Dr. Attia has accomplished a three years clinical fellowship specializing in skull base and cerebrovascular neurosurgery (two years in USA and one year in Jerusalem, 2007-2010). During this period he has participated and operated on multiple complex skull base and cerebrovascular surgeries and gained a great clinical and surgical experience.

Clinical experience

Postgraduate training: Internship: Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel – 2000-2001. Residency: Neurosurgery, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel – 2001-2007. Board certification in Neurosurgery- May 2007.Clinical Skull Base and Cerebrovascular Fellowship (two years in USA and one year in Jerusalem) – 2007-2010. Attending Neurosurgeon at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem – 2010-2011. 2012- present- Attending Neurosurgeon at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa.

Clinical interests

Skull base surgery for meningiomas, neuromas, acoustic neuromas, craniopharyngiomas, pituitary tumors, chordomas and chondrosarcomas.Cerebrovascular surgery for intracranial aneurysms, arterio-venous malformations, cavernous malformations, bypass surgery for moyamoya and cerebral steno-occlusive diseases. Professional memberships Israel Medical Association, the Israeli Neurosurgical Society, and the North American Skull Base Society.

1. Signal transduction in meningiomas and gliomas. 2. Characterization of protein kinase c (PKC) isoforms in meningiomas and gliomas. 3. The molecular biology difference between grade 1, 2 and 3 meningiomas 4. Skull base approaches for meningiomas- transcranial and endoscopic endonasal 5. Surgical and microsurgical techniques for skull base tumors