Shai Efrati
researcher
Shai Efrati (Hebrew: שי אפרתי; born 1971) is a physician from Israel and an associate professor at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine and the Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University as well as director of the Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research at the Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center in Israel. As of 2008, Efrati has served as chairman of the Israeli Society for Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine. Efrati is also Co-Founder and Chair of Medical Advisory Board for Aviv Scientific.
Education and career
Efrati completed his M.D. at Ben Gurion University between 1994 and 2000. He later completed his residency, specializing in internal medicine, between 2001 and 2004, with the Department of Internal Medicine of Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center. In 2003, he continued his diving and hyperbaric medicine training at the Israel Naval Institute in Haifa. He specialized in nephrology. From 2005 to 2007, he was the head of the Nephrology Division and the Head of the Research and Development unit at Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center since 2015.
Efrati is co-founder and Scientific Director of Hospitech Respiration Ltd., founded in 2006 and based in Israel. The company engages in the development of respiratory tract management devices for mechanically ventilated patients.
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