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Eitan Mor

Eitan Mor is an Israeli transplant surgeon who heads the Organ Transplant Center at Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer.

born 1951Israel's first living donor liver transplantsHeading Sheba's Organ Transplant CenterFirst paired exchange kidney transplants

Born: 30 December 1951, Haifa
Occupation: physician
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Eitan Mor was born in 1951 in Haifa

Eitan Mor was born in Haifa on December 30, 1951, and grew up in Jerusalem. He attended the Hebrew University Secondary School.

He joined the IDF in 1970 and served as a fighter in Sayeret Matkal. After his discharge he studied medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He did his internship at Hadassah and completed his surgical residency at Kaplan Hospital in 1989.

He trained as a transplant fellow at Baylor University Medical Center in Texas and at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. He returned to Israel in 1994 to work at Sheba, moved to Beilinson in 1995, and led its liver transplant unit from 1997. In 2002 he became head of transplantation at Beilinson and Schneider hospitals.

He performed Israel's first living donor liver transplants in a child and in an adult. He led the first blood type incompatible and paired exchange kidney transplants in Israel. In 2019 he was named head of the Organ Transplant Center at Sheba.

He chaired the Israel Transplantation Society from 2006 to 2008 and has published over 170 scientific papers. He has been a full professor at Tel Aviv University's medical school since 2011. He is married to Yael and has 4 daughters.