Thoracoscopic Surgery in Pediatric Patients

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Dr. Firas Abu Akar is a Thoracic Surgeon from Jerusalem, He is currently the Head of the Thoracic Surgery Unit at Edith Wolfson Hospital - Holon - Tel Aviv - Israel.

After obtaining a specialization in thoracic surgery in Jerusalem, Dr. Abu Akar spent about a year in Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital (one of the largest hospitals specializing in thoracic surgery in the world) to learn minimally invasive techniques from the most skilled surgeons in the world like Diego Gonzalez Rivas, Yuming Zhu and Jiang Lie.

After returning to his country, he worked in several hospitals and adapted the Uniportal VATS surgery to be applied in pediatric surgery.

Dr. Abu Akar was also interested in chest wall deformities correction Surgeries via minimally invasive techniques (Nuss and Abramson procedures), where he was trained by the surgeon Mustafa Yuksel and performs dozens of these surgeries annually.

Dr. Abu Akar has dozens of publications in the field of minimally invasive thoracic surgery.