Moshe Gueron

Moshe Gueron was born in 1926 in Sofia

Moshe Gueron was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 20 March 1926. After finishing high school there, he began studying medicine in 1944.

In 1949 he immigrated to Israel and joined the first class of the medical school of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He then trained in internal medicine at Hadassah Tel Aviv. In 1957 he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, to train in cardiology, and stayed there until 1961.

Back in Israel in 1961, he worked at Tel HaShomer and then moved to Beersheba, where he joined Soroka Medical Center. He is credited with performing the first successful cardiac catheterization in Israel. Until 1968 he was the hospital's only cardiologist, and he founded and ran its Division of Cardiology for 30 years.

On the advice of pediatrician Wilhelmina Cohen, he began studying heart damage in patients stung by the yellow scorpion. His team described several heart syndromes caused by the stings and found that antivenom gave no benefit in severe cases. He was a professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

He worked at Soroka until 1992 and later served as a consultant. He died on 11 December 2017.