Short Bio, Prof Idit Matot, M.D

Prof Matot is the President of the European Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC). She is the Director of the Division of Surgery at the Tel Aviv Medical Center and the Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain. In the ESIAC she served in multiple positions: Chair of the Scientific Committee of the ESAIC (2019-2024), member of the nomination committee, member of the Research Committee and Transfusion Committee, chair of the Geriatric anesthesia Committee of the ESAIC. In 2022 Prof Matot received the Honorary member award of the ESAIC. Additional honorary awards received are from the Romanian Society of Anesthesia and Intensive care (2019), International Federation of the Dentistry Anesthesiology (2024) and the German Society (DGAI) and Czechoslovakia Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (2022). Prof Matot was also the President of the Israeli Society of Anesthesiologists (ISA), representative for the ISA at the National Association in Europe (NASC). Her research interests include both experimental research related to the liver and clinical outcome research in the perioperative period. Dr Matot received her M.D at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Following medical school, she spent 3 years as a research fellow at the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, studying tone dependent responses in the pulmonary vascular bed. She completed her anesthesia residency at the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine in Hadassah Medical Center, Hebrew University, Jerusalem after which she returned to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Department of Environmental Medicine, for further studies on lung injury and few years later to Department of Anesthesiology at Stanford University. Prof Matot received multiple prestigious grants including an award grant from the American Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, GIF (German Israel Foundation), ISF (Israel Science Foundation) and more. Prof Matot has published > 100 peer review papers in prestigious journals. She is an invited speaker to many international meetings in North and South America, Australia and obviously Europe. She has also been invited as visiting professor to many leading universities, to mentions some, UCLA, Stanford, Mount Sinai NY, and numerous universities in Europe.

Contact Idit Matot: iditm@tlvmc.gov.il