Prof. Shmuel Banai
Medical Director
Board of Directors
Neovasc
Canada
Biography
One of Israel’s leading interventional cardiologists and a productive researcher, Professor Shmuel Banai was Medical Director of Neovasc Medical Ltd., one of the predecessor companies to Neovasc Inc., where he now fulfills the role of Medical Director. Since 2006, Dr. Banai has been the Director of Interventional Cardiology in the Cardiology Department at the Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel. This unit performs more than 5500 cardiac procedures annually, including coronary, valves and structural heart disease interventions, carotid artery intervention, RF ablations and pacemaker implantations. Prior to joining Tel Aviv Medical Center, Professor Banai was a senior interventional and clinical cardiologist and Head of the Clinical Unit in the Cardiology Department at the Hadassah, Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem. Before taking on the role at Hebrew University Medical Centre, he served as the Director of Interventional Cardiology, Associate Director General of the hospital and Associate Director of the Department of Cardiology at the Bikur-Cholim Hospital in Jerusalem from 1992 until 2003. Between1988 and 1991 he was a visiting post-doctoral scientist at the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, of the National Institutions of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Professor Banai is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Cardiology at the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, and a Professor of Cardiology at the Sackler School of Medicine at the Tel Aviv University. His main interests are vessel wall biology and physiology, atherosclerosis, vulnerable plaque, pharmacological treatment of restenosis, anti-thrombotic therapy, and device-based therapy for refractory angina. Professor Banai is the author of more than 150 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, as well as more than 300 abstracts, and has participated in many clinical and pre-clinical research studies in the field of cardiology, interventional cardiology, and pharmacotherapy.
Research Interest
Medicine and Cardiology
