Prof. Arie Bass
was born in Tel-Aviv in 1947. He graduated from the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem in 1971 and joined the Armed Forces. After a life threatening
injury at the 1973 war he was discharged from the Army and started his
surgical training in the Beth Israel hospital in Boston under W. Silem
in 1979 (affiliated Harvard School of the Medicine Surgical program).
Upon his return
to Israel Prof. Bass resumed his work with Prof. Mozes and later with Prof.
Adar at the Surgical department of S.M.C where he became deputy chief.
Prof. Bass completed his vascular training in Paris in 1987 where he spent
a year with Prof. Cornier at the St. Joseph Hospital and subsequently spent
two years as Research fellow at the Scripps Clinic and research Institute
in La Jolla, California with L. Harker and E. F. Bernstein, concentrating
on thrombosis research and creation of surgical models.
He was nominated
Associate Prof. of Surgery of the Sackler School of Medicine in Tel-Aviv
University 1991. Prof. Bass is the scientific coordinator and vice president
of the Israeli Society for Vascular Surgery, Head of the vascular board
examination of the Israeli Scientific Council and consultant in vascular
surgery to the Ministry of Defense and the National Insurance Institute.
He is acting as Chairman of the Ministry of Health Helsinki committee for
new devices and instrumentation in Israel.
Prof. Bass
also served as Chief Surgeon (reserve) of the Israeli Navy, a job he volunteered
to perform in 1980 helping to build the first floating operating theater
for the Israeli Navy.
The new Center
for vascular disease recruited two additional vascular surgeons, Dr. D.
Chayen Dr. E. Veinman. Dr. Chayen completed his studies and training in
England and is a specialist in the non invasive laboratory.
Dr. Veinman
completed his studies in Israel with 11 years experience at the Hadassah
Ein Karem Hospital. Dr. Veinman spent 3 years training in USA concentrating
on thrombosis research.
Lately a new
immigrant from Russia, Prof. V. Krylov, former Head of the Center for Microsurgery
in Moscow, joined the team and is now conducting courses in micro surgery
with the purpose of creating the first hospital micro surgical team.
