Dr. Hagay Amir

Dr. Hagay Amir

Director

Loewenstein Rehabilitation Medical Center

Israel Israel

Dr. Hagay Amir was born in Israel, completed his medical studies in The School of Health Sciences in Ben Gurion University in the Negev, Israel, in the year 1984. Dr. Amir enlisted to the Army as a military physician. He did his first residency in orthopedic surgery in Tel-Aviv Medical Center. He served in the Army as a military physician, his last position was the Chief Military Orthopedic Surgeon and Orthopedic Consultant to the military Surgeon General. Started his second residency in Rehabilitation Medicine and continued in a three-year post-doctoral research and clinical fellowship program in Northwestern University, and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (now Shirley Ryan Ability Lab) In the years 2000-2003. Double boarded in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Orthopedic surgery in 2004. After 9 years in the Orthopedic Rehabilitation Department in Sheba Medical Center, was appointed as director of Orthopedic Rehabilitation Department in Loewenstein Hospital Rehabilitation Center, in Raanana Israel. In 2019 he was appointed as Loewenstein's CEO and Medical Director. Dr. Amir was the consultant of Orthopedic Rehabilitation in Reuth Rehabilitation Hospital for eight years. He consulted Ben Gurion University in planning a rehabilitation center in the Negev. Dr Amir is certified ministry of health physician for prescription of orthoses and prostheses. Dr Amir has a Master's of health services administration degree from Rekanati Business School, Tel Aviv University, and a Master's of Orthopedics from the School of Medicine, TAU, and a post-doctoral fellowship in Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Chicago. Dr. Amir Participated in the surgery and fitting of the first Bionic Arm in a trans-humeral amputee in Israel, and is bringing to the prosthetic rehabilitation in Israel the leading technologies that are being used in the world. He introduced the Osseointegration technique of bone machine interface for amputee rehabilitation, and carried out a few patients with this technology. Dr. Amir is a visionary, and looks into the future, he is leading the Medical Center to new horizons creating rehabilitation models, and adjusts them to the needs of the time.

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