Background
Professor Ori Wald is Head of the Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery Unit at Hadassah Medical Center (HMC). He is also the director of the Thoracic Oncology Research Laboratory at HMC. Professor Wald holds an M.D. and a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. He completed his residency in cardiac and thoracic surgery at HMC and specialized in thoracic surgical oncology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX, USA.