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Rafael Beyar

Rafael Beyar is an Israeli cardiologist and researcher who directed Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa from 2006 to 2019.

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Born: 20 January 1952, Petah Tikva
Occupation: cardiologist, researcher, physician, university teacher
Education: Tel Aviv University, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Rafael Beyar was born in 1952 in Petah Tikva

Beyar was born in Petah Tikva in 1952 to Rina and Dr. Haim Beyar, a urologist. He grew up in Tel Aviv and attended Ahad Ha'am school and Ironi Alef high school.

Through the academic reserve program he studied medicine at Tel Aviv University and earned his MD in 1977. He then earned a DSc in biomedical engineering at the Technion in 1983 and an MPH from Johns Hopkins University in 2008.

He did his residency at Rambam and a cardiology fellowship at Johns Hopkins. At the Technion he founded a heart systems research center, became a full professor, and served as dean of the Faculty of Medicine for 6 years. He also headed invasive cardiology at Rambam from 1996.

In 2006 he became director of Rambam and led it during the Second Lebanon War. Under his development plan the hospital built a fortified underground hospital, a children's hospital and an oncology center. He developed a robotic catheterization system and co-founded Corindus Vascular Robotics.

He ended his term at Rambam in February 2019 and became president of its international friends associations. That year the University of Haifa gave him an honorary doctorate.