• Pediatric Cardiology.
• Ultrasound diagnostics of heart diseases.
• Prenatal diagnosis and correction of heart defects.
• Treatment of congenital heart defects.
• Specializes in open-heart surgery and innovative methods of correction of congenital heart defects.
• Performs unique surgeries including heart transplants and defibrillator implantation in infants.

• Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Postgraduate education and courses:

• Residency in Pediatrics, Stanford University Hospital, California, USA.
• Postgraduate training in pediatric cardiology, University of California, San Francisco, USA.

• Director of the Heart Institute in Israel.
• Privately sees and consults with patients with congenital heart disease.
• Supervises complex surgeries including heart transplants and pediatric valve catheterization.

Unique surgeries performed by Dr. Einat Birk:

1. Cardiology:

• Stenting: Including complex procedures using author’s techniques in the youngest patients.
• Valve Replacement: Minimally invasive catheterization procedure for valve implantation in children.
• Heart Transplantation: Successful heart transplant surgeries in children and infants.
• Defibrillator Implantation: Pioneering surgery to implant a defibrillator in a four-month-old baby, the first of its kind in the world.
• Open Heart Surgery: Correction of various heart defects.

2. Thoracic Surgery:

• Tracheoplasty: A unique operation to widen the full length of the trachea in an infant, avoiding a tracheostomy. Combined tracheal and aortic surgery.

• Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco.
• Lectures and conducts master classes in cardiac surgery.

• Author of more than 100 publications in international medical journals.
• She participates in scientific conferences and symposiums on pediatric cardiology.

Dr. Birk’s publications address important aspects of clinical practice and innovative treatments such as the use of stenting, catheterization, and surgery for complex cardiac pathologies.

The main research areas are:

1. Treatment of congenital heart defects – development and implementation of new methods of catheterization, stenting and valve replacement, which allows treating such diseases in a minimally invasive way.
2. Complications after cardiac surgery in children.
3. The use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
4. Influence of drugs and external factors on cardiac pathologies.

• Member of the Society of Cardiology of Israel.
• Member of international associations in pediatric cardiology.