Shimon Rochkind
Israeli clinician and neurosurgeon
Shimon Rochkind (Hebrew: שמעון רושקינד) is an Israeli clinician and an operating neurosurgeon. His professional interests include surgery on the peripheral nerves, the lumbar and sacral spine, brachial plexus and cauda equina. Rochkind pioneered the use of the laser therapy for the treatment of injuries in the peripheral nervous system. Currently he dedicates a fair share of his time to the scientific work: developing the matrix for peripheral nerve and spinal cord reconstruction.
Education and clinical work
Shimon Rochkind had graduated with honors and received his medical degree from Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University, Ukrainian SSR, in 1975. After arriving in Israel and serving in the Israeli Defense Forces (Major in Reserve) he completed his specialization in neurosurgery at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in 1989. Then he completed a fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto), specializing in pediatric neurosurgery.
In 1992, he finished a senior fellowship in Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa, specializing in the restoration of peripheral nerves and brachial plexus and later in 2003 an advanced clinical training for brachial plexus reconstructive surgery in Ogori Daiichi General Hospital, Japan. Prof. Rochkind had completed his Ph.D. Dissertation "Influence of Laser Phototherapy on Acetylcholine Receptors and Creatine Phosphokinase content in Denervated Muscle" in Bar Ilan University, Israel, in 2014.
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