Department of Pediatric Surgery

Dr. Ran Steinberg is Director of the Department of Pediatric Surgery at Ruth Rappaport Children's Hospital, Rambam Health Care Campus.

Dr. Steinberg graduated from the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, completed his general surgery residency at Rambam and a pediatric surgery residency at Schneider Children's Medical Center (1997). He also completed a clinical fellowship in Cape Town, South Africa (1999) and was subsequently appointed Deputy Director of the Department of Pediatric Surgery at Schneider Children's Medical Center. Later he completed a fellowship program in pediatric liver transplantation in London (2003-4), and was appointed Director of the Pediatric Transplantation Unit at Schneider Children's Medical Center (2009).

Since 2012, Dr. Steinberg has served as Director of the Department of Pediatric Surgery at Rambam. In 2014, Dr. Steinberg opened the Pediatric Kidney Transplantation Unit at Ruth Rappaport Children's Hospital, making it the second medical center performing transplantations in children in Israel.

Dr. Steinberg was appointed by the Israeli Minister of Health to the National Trauma and National Children’s Health Committees, and is an elected board member of the Israeli Transplantation Association. His main areas of interest are kidney transplantations and pediatric solid tumors.
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