Prof. Sa’ar Minha

Director of the Interventional Cardiology Unit

 

Prof. Minha is an interventional cardiologist. For the past five years he is the director of the Interventional Cardiology Unit at Shamir Medical Center, which is considered an intracoronary imaging and physiology center of excellence, and a leader in complex coronary intervention and advanced hemodynamic support in Israel. Prof. Minha also heads the Cardiology Department’s data analytics program.

Prof. Minha is a graduate of Tel Aviv University Faculty of Medicine, completed his residency in internal medicine and cardiology at Shamir Medical Center and a fellowship in interventional cardiology at Washington Hospital Center, Washington D.C. He is the acting head to the Interventional Cardiology work group at the Israel Cardiology Association.

Prof. Minha is an active researcher with over 100 publications, focusing on prognostic modelling in cardiac patients and the use of algorithmics (artificial intelligence) in the diagnosis and assessment of cardiac function. He is also an active reservist in a special unit of the Israeli Air Force.