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Z. Ram

Zvi Ram is an Israeli physician who has headed the neurosurgery division at Tel Aviv Medical Center since 2003.

born 1955Neurosurgery at Tel Aviv Medical CenterNeurosurgery teaching at Tel Aviv University

Born: 3 November 1955, Tel Aviv
Occupation: physician
Education: Tel Aviv University

Z. Ram was born in 1955 in Tel Aviv

Zvi Ram was born in Tel Aviv on November 3, 1955. His parents were Tzipora and the journalist Elimelech Ram. As a child he appeared in the 1964 film Eight Against One.

He finished medical school at Tel Aviv University in 1979 through the academic reserve program. After an internship at Sheba Medical Center, he served in the IDF as a physician until 1985.

He trained in neurosurgery at Sheba and became a specialist in 1991. From 1991 to 1994 he worked as a senior physician in neurosurgery at the National Institutes of Health in the United States. He then returned to Sheba as a senior physician, became deputy head of the department in 1999, and moved to lead neurosurgery at Tel Aviv Medical Center in 2003.

He has taught at Tel Aviv University since 1995, becoming associate professor in 2000 and full professor in 2011. He has published about 200 papers. In 2013 a TV investigation led to an announced suspension process that was never opened, police recommended a bribery charge in 2016, and prosecutors closed the case in 2019.

He is married to a physician, has 2 daughters and lives in Ramat Gan.