RESUME
DR. TAMAR YASHAR
Dr. Tamar Yashar
was born in Israel. Graduate of Tel-Aviv City High School "A" .
Graduate of the Faculty of Medicine from Turin University, Italy in 1983.
In 1990, she finished her internship in anesthesia at the Anesthesia and Intensive
Care Department, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, where she continued working
and works today as senior physician in the field of anesthesia as well as at the
pain clinic. She holds the position of mentor at Tel-Aviv University, where she
coaches students, interns and physicians from overseas.
Dr. Yashar
speaks Hebrew, English, italian, Rumanian & French
2006
Chosen as outstanding lecturer in a course offered to physicians from overseas
at Tel-Aviv University.
Lectures in Israel and in Italy to specialist physicians,
students and nurses on the subject of pain.
Graduate of
an acupuncture course at a college in California. Administers
acupuncture treatment at her private clinic.
Visiting lecturer in a course on pain at Aquila University, Italy.
2005
Appointed pain consultant at the Orthopedic Oncology Department,
Metastases Treatment Unit, Ichilov
Hospital.
2004
Appointed Pain Coordinator at Clalit Healthcare Fund,
Zamenhof Clinic, Tel-Aviv,
to which patients are referred
from all over the center of Israel. Thousands of patients are
treated at this clinic.
2003
Appointed by the Magistrate's Court as expert witness on the subject of pain.
07/2003
Appointed "super consultant" to Leumit Healthcare Fund. In 2008 set up
a pain clinic of Leumit Healthcare Fund
for the Tel-Aviv area (to which patients from all over the country are referred).
PRACTICAL COURSES AND ADVANCED STUDIES
Sep. 2007
Practical course on implantation of SCS devices, Medox Ltd., Hungary (including diploma)
Feb. 2007
Nysora Asian Congress, Singapore. Practical course on nerve blocking under ultrasound (including diploma)
Nov. 2006
Course on peer training on application of radio frequency procedures
for the treatment of spinal pain,
University of Toronto (including diploma).
Sep. 2006
ESRA Convention, Monaco. U.S. Workshop Pump (including diploma).
May 2005
Practical course at ESI, Hamburg, German to learn the technique
of intrathecal morphine pump implantation
(including diploma).
Mar. 2004
Practical course in Belgium arranged by Arrow – EMI Technologies
on stimucath implantation, a method used
for treating orthopedic patients after shoulder surger and orthopedic-oncology patients.
2003
WIP, Course on invasive procedures, Budapest, Hungary (including diploma).
1992-1996
Course on pain as part of advanced studies at Tel-Aviv University.
SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS
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Anesthesiologists Association
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Israeli Pain Organization
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ESRA – European Society of Regional Anesthesia
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EFIC – International Association for the Study of Pain
PAPERS PUBLISHED BY DR. T. YASHAR
• Epidural M.O. pretreatment for post operative episiotomy, CLINICAL J.OF PAIN – 1994
• Timing of epidural M.O. administration effects post episiotomy analgesia,
PAIN – SUPLEMENT 6 P.301 ABS.808
• Combined pre-incisional oral dextromethorphan and epidural lidocaine for postoperative pain reduction and
morphine sparing: randomise double-blind study on day-surgery patientAnesthesia 56 (7), 616-622
• Halothane, isofluorane and fentanyl raise the minimally efficacious defibrillation threshold of an implantable
cardioversion defibrillator: first report in humans. Anesthesia and Analgesia – 2002; 95:1147-53
• Ecstasy intoxication : life-threatening manifestations and resuscitation measures in the intensive care setting
Submitted – J.critical care
• Dr. Yashar co-authored a manual in Hebrew for anesthesiologists to
which she contributed chapters with the
following headings:
1. Local and regional anesthesia:
a. Pharmacology of local and regional anesthetics.
b. Lumbar (intraspinal) anesthesia.
c. Plexus anesthesia and blocking of individual nerves.
d. Opiates in regional anesthesia.
2. Treatment of post-surgical pain.
3. Treatment of chronic pain:
a. Function of the pain clinic.
b. Methods of treating chronic pain.