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Dr. Merom is a Minimally Invasive Spine Surgeon and
completed his Clinical Spine Surgery Fellowship at Queen
Mary and Duchess of Kent hospitals in Hong Kong. He graduated the Faculty Of Medicine at Pavia University in Italy. Dr. Merom trained in Orthopedic Surgery at Rambam Medical Center Dr. Merom also completed a post graduate combined neurosurgical and orthopedic clinical spinal surgery fellowship at Austin and Royal Melbourne hospitals in Australia.
Specialization includes:
Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery
Professional Experience:
1996-1997: Internship, Rambam Medical Centre, Haifa, Israel
1997-2003: Residency training in Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Rambam Medical Centre, Haifa, Israel.
2002: Honorary Clinical Associate in Spine Surgery at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Duchess of Kent / Queen Mary Hospital, University of Hong Kong.
2002: Kyphoplasty course (Kyphon)- Leiden, Netherlands.
2003: Board examination in Orthopaedic Surgery, Specialist No: 21075
2005-2006: Post graduate combined Orthopaedic / Neurosurgical Clinical Spinal fellowship The Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
2007:
• Lumbar Nucleoplasty workshop, Freiburg, Germany.
• Minimal Access Spine Technology, Wein, Austria.
2008:
• Minimal invasive surgery for lumbar spine surgery- Germany
• Vertiflex workshop for MISS, Wein, Austria.
• Updates in dynamic fusion, Genova, Italy.
2009: Cervical Nucleoplasty, Wein, Austria.
2010: Anterior approaches to the lumbar spine. Synthes fellowship – Munich,
2011:
• Endoscopic Assisted Discectomy live course, Wein . Austria.
2012:
• DLIF Medtronic spine. Leiden University, Netherlands.
• XLIF Nuvasive. (Surgeon visit) Milan, Italy.
• Epiduroscopy training live course to the spine. (Seville, Spain)
2013:
• DTRAX- posterior facet cervical fusion ( Düsseldorf, Germany)
• A.O spine annual meeting (Davos , Swizerland)
Education and Specialization:
2006: Spine Surgery unit -Consultant Spine surgeon, Rambam Health Care Campus. Haifa-Israel.
2007: Clinical guide- Spine Surgery unit, Rambam Health Care Campus. Haifa-Isreal
2012: Application for Lecturer
2013: GCP course.
Clinical and Scientific Experience include:
2003:
• Israeli Orthopaedic Association Annual Meeting: “Low friction traction method for reducing cervical spine dislocations and fracture Dislocations.”
• Inter-Hospitals Trauma Meetings:
o “Thoraco-Lumbar Burst fractures”
o “Spine Clearance in Trauma”
2004:
• School of Post graduate medical education- CME, Orthopaedic surgery course, Tel Aviv University, Sackler Faculty of Medicine.
Inter- Hospital Trauma Meeting:
• “Gunshot injury to the spine”.
Northern Israel Trauma Meeting:
• “The approach to the cervical spine trauma patient”
Israeli Orthopaedic Association Annual Meeting:
• “Non operative treatment for compression and Burst fractures in the thoraco-lumbar region: “The roles of the hyperextantion maneuver”.
2005:
• Poster session, Australian Spine Society annual meeting, Aukland –New Zealand “Low friction traction for reducing cervical spine dislocation”.
2006:
• Inter Hospital Trauma meeting: “Trauma to the sub axial spine”
2007:
Israeli Spine Society annual meeting:
• Analysis of various microdiscectomy methods in the lumbar Spine: Short-term results.
• Comparison of two injectable agents for treatment of lumbar Facet arthrosis with facet block.
• Short term results using Dynesys: dynamic lumbar stabilization System.
• Multiple Myeloma Society National Meeting: “The role of the spinal surgeon in multiple myeloma”.
2008:
Israeli Spine Society annual meeting:
• Lumbar Nucleoplasty: Any predictive clues for patient satisfaction and pre-Op MRI findings
• Risk factors of persisting disphagia after anterior cervical approach
The annual Israeli trauma meeting:
• Minimal invasive fracture fixation in the thoraco-lumbar region.
2009:
Israeli Spine Society annual meeting:
• Minimal Invasive Burst fracture fixation in the Thoraco-lumbar region
• Clinical results of surgical treatment in vertebral
2011:
Multiple Myeloma Society National Meeting: “The role of the spinal surgeon in multiple myeloma”.
Israeli Spine Society annual meeting:
• Pitfalls, tricks and drawbacks in thoraco-lumbar spine trauma treated with MIS (Skip level).
• MIS Spine Techniques – Barriers to Surgeon Adoption.
2013:
Israeli Spine Society annual meeting:
• Collar after an ACDF- a comparison study between two policies: with and without a collar after surgery.
• Nucleoplasty versus Endoscopic assisted discectomy in the treatment of contained disc herniations – A comparison study of outcome.
Invited Speaker and Instructor
2008:
• Israeli Spine Society annual meeting: “Degenerative Lumbar spondylolisthesis and spinal stenosis at the 9th decade”
• The annual meeting of the Israeli association of orthopedic surgeons: “The Non operative treatment of cervical facet dislocation”.
2009:
• Israeli Spine Society annual meeting: Session Chairman – Pain management.
• Arthrocare Instructor, Lumbar nucleoplasty cadaver training course. May, 15-16, University of Vienna, Austria.
• Rambam Health Care Campus “Grand Round stuff meeting”: Innovations in spine surgery.
• Focus group for minimal invasive spine surgery: De-pui spine- Boston, US.
2010:
• Arthrocare Instructor, Lumbar nucleoplasty cadaver training course. April 26-28, University of Salzburg, Austria.
• AO Spine Advances Symposium-Spinal Deformities: June 9-11 Kfar Gilady, Isreal.
2011:
• Minimal Invasive Spine Surgery- User Meeting. De-pui spine, Barcelona, Spain.
• Nucleoplasty update International congress for disc herniation treatment. Nov. 2011 Tel Aviv, Israel.
• The Israeli Society of Muscoloskeletel medicine: Haifa, 28 Dec. 2011
2012:
• Arthrocare Spine: Northern Family physician conference- Haifa
• “What is new in spine surgery?” Instructional course for family physicians.
• “Introduction to modern spine surgey”- Update for family physicians.
2013:
• Israeli Annual pain meeting conference: “Guidelines to radicular pain Treatment”.
2014:
• Israeli Annual pain meeting conference: “I had a spine surgery, And now What?”
• National Spinal -Myeloma meeting: Panel discussion member.
Teaching:
• Lecturer in Orthopaedic Surgery, Nursing School, University of Haifa, Israel.
• Lectures in Orthopaedic Surgery for medical students in The Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rambam Medical Centre, Haifa, Israel.
• Lectures in the National Trauma Service.Lectures in Orthopaedic Surgery, Occupational Therapy School, University of Haifa, Israel
• Lectures in Spinal trauma, Advance Intensive care course for nurses, University of Haifa.
• Lecture in the “Israeli Physiotherapist Association Annual Meeting”: “What’s new in spinal surgery”.
• Lecturer in “Trauma organization course for overseas physicians”.
• Lecturer for “Operating Theatre nurses”- spine surgery.
Membership In Professional Societies
• Israel Medical Association
• Israeli Spine Society.
• Israeli Orthopaedic Society.
Language:
• English
• Hebrew